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1 Farthing Lothian - Edinburgh / St Andrew
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Weight | 4 g |
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| Obverse description | Full-length figure of St Andrew standing facing, head turned to right, holding a large saltire cross; thistles flank the figure on either side. A continuous legend encircles the design within a toothed border, with the date 1792 placed in the exergue below the figure. |
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| Reverse description | The Arms of Edinburgh displayed on a shield, depicting the castle walls of Edinburgh Castle; an anchor with rope is shown above the shield. A decorative wreath of thistles frames the lower portion of the design, with the surrounding legend contained within a toothed border. |
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This is one of the Scottish provincial coppers issued in the early 1790s to address a chronic shortage of regal small change — the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned farthing production for decades, leaving Scottish tradesmen and manufacturers to commission their own tokens. The Edinburgh issues of this period were struck in quantity by private contractors, almost certainly in Birmingham's Soho or Parson Street die shops, which supplied the majority of provincial token dies across Britain during this window.
Atkins 56 and Batty 1158 cross-references confirm this as a well-documented variety within the Lothian series, though collector attrition has made clean survivors harder to locate than the mintage volume alone would suggest.