Owner Comments:
Angusshire
Dundee
Halfpenny
No. 11 D&H 16
Obverse: - A view of the front of a large building with a main entrance and pointed pediments. The letters I.W.I. (the initials of J. Wright, Junr,) to the left, and the word DESIGN. to the right, beneath the building. The whole within a sunken oval. Legend: - DUNDEE HALFPENNY 1796 INFIRMARY FOUNDED 1794
Reverse: - A view of a harbor with a three-masted vessel passing close to a wharf on which is lying three packages. The ship appears to be heading towards two glass-works' cones in the distance on the left from which dense smoke is rising. The Arms, Crest, Supporters and Motto of Dundee are displayed in a sunken oval beneath the seascape. Legend: - MARE ET COMMERCIUM COLIMUS.
Edge: - A serpentine line and dots'
Diesinker, Wyon; manufacturer, Kempson. Ten CWTs. struck. Common.
Reference #2
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Angus DH-16
O: A public building, I.W.I. design in small letters under. DUNDEE HALFPENNY 1796. INFIRMARY FOUNDED 1794.
R: Slightly different design to R: of No. 10. MARE ET COMMERCIUM COLIMUS.
E: Engrailed, with a waved line and dots.
Some struck in collar, some not.
Also struck in silver
16a. E: Milled
This is from the same die as No. 16, but all specimens are poorly struck.
Reference #3
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References
#1 Notes on Eighteenth Century Tokens by Arthur W Waters, Seaby's numismatic Publications 1954
#2 Commercial Coins 1787 -1804 by R. C. Bell, Corbitt & Hunter LTD 1963
#3 The Provincial Token - Coinage of the 18th Century Illustrated, By R, Dalton & S.H. Hamer 1910 - 1918, Reprint 2015, The Copper Corner