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England - 1793

Wainfleet halfpenny

Obverse:

View of Wainfleet Abbey. * 1459.

Legend:

FOUNDED BY WILLIAM WAYNEPLETE

Exergue:

1459. / device

Size:

29.4 mm.

Edge:

PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF D. WRIGHT & S. PALMER . X .

Reverse:

A figure of Hope standing, a ship in the distance. WAINFLEET HALFPENNY. Exe: 1793. The finger of the figure points to the second letter E in "WAINFLEET,"

Vern's Comments:

BELL N^o 3 D&H 8

WAINFLEET Wright, D. & Palmer, S.
   Obverse :- View of the Free Grammar School, fronting to the right. Legend :-FOUNDED BY WILLIAM WAYNEFLETE with a small ornament and " 1459".
   Reverse :- Hope, with dishevelled hair, resting her left arm on an anchor, and her right hand upraised. There is a bale of merchandise in the background to the right, and a ship at sea to the left.
Legend :- WAINFLEET HALFPENNY with 1793 in the exergue.
   Edge :- PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF D. WRIGHT & S. PALMER ·X·
Diesinker, Wyon; manufacturer, Kempson. Five cwts. struck. Common

Comments. Nothing appears to be known of Wright and Palmer. The old Free Grammar School was founded by William Patten, alias Barbour, otherwise William of Wainfleet, and afterwards Bishop of Winchester, Lord High Chancellor in the reign of Henry VI; and founder of Magdalen College, Oxford .    This handsome brick building with two towers at the west end came to be used as a church on every other Sunday during the winter, and was being used in this way at the time of the token's issue. It is sometimes referred to as Wainfleet Abbey, or Chapel, though originally it was not intended as a place of worship.

Commercial Coins 1787-1804., pp. 93-94

England — Lincolnshire

D & H 8 — Wainfleet

Bell Pg: 93-94

O: View of Wainfleet Abbey. FOUNDED BY WILLIAM WAYNEPLETE * 1459.

A. 9

R: Similar, but the figure is not so large, and its pointing finger touches the first E.

E: PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF D. WRIGHT & S. PALMER . X .

Wainfleet halfpenny