Birmingham Mining & Copper Company, Copper Halfpenny, 1793 (D&H Warwickshire 116)

Birmingham Mining & Copper Company, Copper Halfpenny, 1793 (D&H Warwickshire 116) Obv: A female seated upon a rock holding a fasces. Around the perimeter BIRMINGHAM MINING AND COPPER COMPANY Ex: 1793 The point of the laurel wreath between the G and A. The right-hand corner of the fasces aligns under the D of AND.  Small letters in inscription; wide date; Rev: A stork upon a cornucopia. Around the perimeter HALFPENNY PAYABLE AT The head of the stork to the center of the space between the Y of HALFPENNY and the P of PAYABLE; the trailing leg of the stork is at an angle. The tail of the cornucopia to the center of the B of PAYABLE; the two center leaves below the first limb of H of HALFPENNY; Edge: BIRMINGHAM LIVERPOOL OR LONDON  (Atkins p. 212, 76; D&H Warwickshire 116)

Choice uncirculated.

Birmingham Mining & Copper Co.; James Yates, Chairman, later as a brassfounder and plater, Slaney Street, Birmingham.

Ex. Van Valen Collection