Issued to Pay the Paupers in 1818

440, Lot: 690. Estimate $75. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TOKENS, Yorkshire. Keighley. Anonymous. CU Penny (36mm, 28.41 g, 12h). Undertype dated 1812. KEIGHLEY in raised letters within an incuse rectangle and KEIGHLEY in incuse letters, curved as a segment of a circle / KEIGHLEY in raised letters within an incuse rectangle and an impressed mark with rounded ends which is a segment of a circle. Davis (countermarks p. 18) 51; W 800; TB 800. VF, two-tone brown, traces of red, some marks, spot of lacquer. Scarce. The undertype is a Birmingham Union Copper Company for Public Accomodation CU Penny, 1812. TB 345-368.

From the Quentin Brisley Collection of British Tokens.

Davis commented that “These were issued by the Keighley Overseers of the Poor, to pay the paupers in 1818.”