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1 Penny - Somerset - Bath M. Lambe & Son
| Issuer | M. Lambe & Son, Bath |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
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| Obverse description | A bridled camel, laden with trade goods, paces to the left beneath a radiate sky, the stylised sunburst rendered in fine engraved lines above the animal. The commercial legend TEAS COFFEE SPICES & SUGARS. encircles the design, referencing the merchant's principal wares. A single five-pointed star occupies the exergue below the camel. The design is contained within a raised beaded border and a plain rim with milled edge, typical of the late eighteenth-century provincial token trade. |
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| Reverse lettering | M. LAMBE & SON TEA-DEALERS & GROCERS BATH * INDIA HOUSE 1794 |
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Bath in the 1790s was at the height of its fashionable peak, and the copper token trade thrived precisely because the Royal Mint had allowed regal copper coinage to collapse into a sea of lightweight counterfeits. Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint wouldn't supply a credible national halfpenny until 1797, leaving provincial merchants to fill the gap themselves. Lambe & Son, operating as a Bath hardware and ironmongery concern, issued this penny-weight token to keep small transactions moving through their shop.
DH#8 places it within the Dalton-Hamer classification for Somerset, a series notable for the sheer variety of dies sourced from London engravers competing for commercial token contracts.