Nottinghamshire 10, Nottingham (Dalton & Hamer, page 221)
Denomination: halfpenny, scarcity: Untraced
10. O: A man working a machine. INCLINED PLANE AT KETLEY 1789. See Shropshire.
R: A man working at a loom. NO 29 BULL STREET. Ex.: BIRMINGHAM 1792.
(Similar to No. 9)
No. 10, RRR. It was not traced.
Nos. 9 and 10 are of extreme rarity (if not unique), and are in all probability
trial pieces of a new die, struck upon reverse which came to hand. The centre of
No. 9 is engraved in the only specimen known.
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