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1/2 Penny Middlesex - Richardson's / Fortune
| Issuer | Richardson, Goodluck & Co. |
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| Year | 1795 |
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| Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
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| Obverse description | Standing allegorical figure of Fortune, facing, balanced upon a wheel in the lower field, flanked on either side by two large 18th-century crowned lottery wheels. The composition is rendered in bold relief in the prevailing neoclassical style. A double exergue at the base contains the date, with the legend arching around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTHING VENTURE NOTHING HAVE 1795 |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears an eight-line commercial inscription filling the central field, with additional text arranged around the periphery. The legend references Richardson, Goodluck & Co., their office number 12807, and records that the last prize of £30,000 was shared and sold in sixteenths, serving as an advertisement for the issuing lottery office. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, consistent with the work of the Birmingham token trade. |
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