On Sunday, Jan 25, 2004, at 04:22 Europe/London, ozandman wrote:
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> I am putting together a stamp/associated material display on mining.
> At Ebay, at present is a "1791 Anglesey Mines Halfpenny" lot number
> 2219542421.
> Can any one help me with info on this type of material and how common
> they are?
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>
John,
I'm not sure if your question appertains solely to the Anglesey Parys
Mine token coinage or UK mining related token coinage in general. The
simple answer is that the Parys Mines coinage is ubiquitous amongst
token coinage, I think somewhere in the range of three hundred tons of
it was issued.
Other mining token coinage, e.g. for the Cornish mining industry and
yet others issued by copper smelting companies is, generally speaking,
less common. However apart from rare varieties of the coins themselves
non could be classed as particularly hard to obtain, although a little
diligence may be required to track them down. Ebay recently had a
particularly fine 'set' of Cornish mining tokens up for grabs and Parys
Mine coinage is making a fairly regular appearance at the moment.
As an aside I know of two old Cornish mining related banks that issued
their own paper money, e.g. the Kit Hill Bank, examples of these notes
are in a totally different league to tokens, unsurprisingly, I have
never seen a Kit Hill banknote outside of record offices or museums.
If that doesn't answer your question please feel free to contact me and
I will endeavour to do so.
Regards,
Pete Challis
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