1083986 | GREAT BRITAIN. Wales, Angelesey. 1790 CU Halfpenny Token or Pattern Halfpenny Token. PCGS MS64RB (Red-Brown). By R. Dumarest for M. Boulton. Edge: PAYABLE IN ANGELESEY OR LONDON. Druid's head left within oak wreath and border of acorns / THE ANGLESEY MINES HALFPENNY •/ 1970. Date above monogram of Parys Mines Company, PMCo. D & H 380.

Likely a pattern issue. Courtesy of Peter Preston-Morley at Noonan's London: "D&H doesn’t go into the patterns very much. The pre-1790 Anglesey tokens were largely made in Birmingham by John Westwood and John Hancock for Thomas Williams. As Williams’ own machinery was tiring, efforts were being made behind the scenes for Boulton to receive the Anglesey dies from Hancock, and edged blanks from Charles Wyatt, that he would need to coin tokens for Williams. This was in the autumn of 1789 and it is said that about 900,000 tokens were struck, these most likely being D&H 357 thru 364. They are among Boulton’s poorest productions and he never publicly recognised them; to him it was just another coinage contract. Williams ordered more tokens from Boulton in the spring of 1790 and Droz was to make the dies, but he never did and the job was given to Dumarest. Williams didn’t like Dumarest’s druid’s head with the long beard (D&H 380) and it is generally regarded as a pattern, or trial, never authorised for circulation; after months of wrangling Dumarest had to adapt new Hancock obverse dies for the 1791 issue (D&H 386 thru 391).". Fully prooflike.


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