Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 100
losely that we have no doubt the same artist pro-duced it. The legend around the bust is the same; and on thereverse is a ship, with the legend Half-penny, and the date1793. The edge has the words, Payable in Anglesey, London,or Liverpool. This coin would seem to be conclusive in estab-lishing the… … NATIONAL COINAGE. Another variety of the same coin has no date on the reverse,but two branches of leaves under the ship. Another English token was issued with a head of Washington,and on the reverse a grate. This is called the Washington Gratecent or token, and was issued by Clark and Harris, a…
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