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1/2 Penny Inverness / MacKintosh, Inglis and Wilson's
| Issuer | MacKintosh, Inglis & Wilson (Inverness) |
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| Year | 1795 |
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| Reference(s) | DH#3 |
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| Obverse lettering | INVERNESS HALFPENNY. 1795 |
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| Reverse lettering | CONCORDIA ET FIDELITAS CLACH NA CUDDEN |
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MacKintosh, Inglis & Wilson were Inverness merchants who issued this token during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Britain through the 1790s, when the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned copper coinage production for over a decade. Provincial traders across Scotland and England filled the vacuum themselves, commissioning dies from commercial diesinkers — most tokens of this type originating from a handful of Birmingham workshops, principally Westwood and Hancock.
DH#3 places this among the scarcer documented Inverness issues. Few Highland merchants bothered with formal token issues at all, making any attributable Inverness piece notable within the Scottish provincial series.