1/2 Penny Inverness / MacKintosh, Inglis and Wilson's

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.