Warwickshire 79, Mining & Copper Company. 1791 (Dalton & Hamer, page 271)
Denomination: halfpenny, scarcity: Very rare (RR)
79. O: A female seated on a rock, holding a fasces. BIRMINGHAM MINING AND COPPER
COMPANY. Ex.: 1791. The fasces comes under the A and N, and the point of
laurel wreath comes midway between the G and the A. There is a small W
under the rock, and a period at end of legend.
R: A stork standing upon a cornucopia. HALFPENNY PAYABLE AT. The first limb
of H points between two leaves.
E: BIRMINGHAM REDRUTH & SWANSEA.
Also struck in silver.
No. 79, RR.
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