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.
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.