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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 657

NGC MS64 RB | DERBYSHIRE, Buxton, William Hay, Thomas Tomlinson and William Orme, Halfpenny, 1796, crescent façade, CRESCENT 1796 below in two lines, rev. arms of the Duke of Devonshire, BUXTON TOKEN and engrailed on edge, 6h, 10.74g (D&H 3), minor scratch right of supporter, otherwise with much brilliance to near full mint-red surfaces, much as struck, very scarce, in NGC holder, graded MS64 RB (Cert. #8220549-020)

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)



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The following manuscript note appears in the interleaved copy of "The Virtuoso's Companion", formerly the property of the late Rev W R Hay, M A, vicar of Rochdale: - "Mr Kempson of Birmingham was employed by the Mr Tomlinson, Surgeon of Manchester, Mr Wm. Orme, Draw. Master & myself to get a Token Executed the Obv. of which shd be ye Crescent, die as rep. in 4to Pye Pl 12, No. 2, without a date, only 6 impressions were taken, when the die broke, of the Rev. repd. Here & in 4to Pye as above, about 27 or 30 Imps. Taken when that broke also, having been used with the new Obv as below. I never cd. get an impres. Of ye very scarce one, Mr. barker & Mr Welch each had one."



Hamer in his first BNJ article published in 1904, on the subject of regional tokens, writes of this piece: 'Only six were struck when the reverse die broke. A new die was made with the date 1796 below the word "crescent". Of these about twenty-seven or thirty were struck, then the obverse die failed , and another without the helmet above the coronet was sunk, the last named reverse die being used, and about two hundred were struck. The building represented was erected by the Duke of Devonshire, from the designs by John Carr, at a cost of £120,000; at that time no other watering place could rival the "Crescent" in architecture…



Mr Hay was chairman of the Justices of Alford Quarter Sessions, and ordered the reading of the Riot Act on August 16th, 1819 at "Peterloo", near St Peter's Church, Manchester. The Government formally supported the magistrate in their action, and upon an occasion when Mr Hay was dining at Lord Liverpool's, in October 1819, Sir John Copley stood up, and in a marked manner asked Mr Hay to take wine with him, the first of any one at the table; in less than a month after this meeting, the valuable living of Rochdale fell vacant, by the death of Dr Drake, and although great efforts were made to procure it from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Dr Thomas Dunham Whitaker, vicar of Blackburn, other and more successful efforts were made to secure the benefice for Mr Hay'


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