Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Penny Wicklow - Cronebane / Miners Arms
| Issuer | Associated Irish Mines Company |
|---|---|
| Year | 1787-1797 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A heraldic shield of arms occupies the central field, quartered and charged with mining implements including crossed picks and shovels; above the shield, the crest depicts a windlass in relief. The armorial composition is enclosed within a beaded border, with the circumferential legend ASSOCIATED IRISH MINERS ARMS arcing around the upper and lower periphery in Latin characters. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ASSOCIATED IRISH MINERS ARMS |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Associated Irish Mines Company operated the Cronebane copper mine in County Wicklow, one of the most productive in eighteenth-century Ireland. Company tokens of this type were issued to pay workers directly, a common practice where state coinage was chronically undersupplied — Ireland's copper currency shortage in the 1780s and 1790s was acute enough that private industrial tokens became the de facto small change across much of the country.
Dalton & Hamer's reference 39 covers several die marriages within this issue, and minor varieties exist.