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Derbyshire Buxton DH #3
Obverse: A fine Georgian Crescent building. Ex: CRESCENT with 1796 below.
Reverse: The shield of Arms, Supporters, Crest, and Motto of the Duke of Devonshire without the helmet.
Edge: BUXTON TOKEN, the rest engrailed
Diesinker: Thomas Wyon
Manufacturer: Peter Kempson
Issuer: Rev. William Robert Hay, Thomas Tomlinson, and William Orme
Rarity: Scarce
Reverend William Robert Hay (1761-1839), a coin collector and barrister practicing on the Northern Circuit, lived at Dukinfield, near Manchester; he was ordained into the priesthood in 1798 and later became a magistrate. Thomas Tomlinson, surgeon, Brazenose Street, Manchester; William Orme, a drawing master of Ardwick, Manchester.
The obverse of the token depicts the three-story crescent at Buxton, designed by the York architect John Carr for the Duke of Devonshire and erected in 1785 at a cost of £120,000. It consisted of two hotels, a library, newsroom, baths, piazzas, shops and private residences.
About 200 tokens struck.
Atkins: Derbyshire 3
Dix Noonan Webb Robbie Brown Dups #1, 10 June 2015
Ex: Robbie Brown
Bt. Jerry Bobbe