Atkins. 
Not in_ 
Atkins. 
57: 
Bath. 
16f, .OCrK: 
ED: 
17: Os 
R: 
tN 
30 
As last. 
EMSWORTH HALFPENNY. PAYABLE BY JOHN 
STRIDE. V.R. 
As has been mentioned Wood & Co. cannot 
be precisely traced, but evidently Lambe had 
some connection with the firm, as No. 16 was 
struck to his order. Manufacturer, Kempson ; 
die-engraver, Wyon. 
A head, front face. MINERVA, PATRONESS OF 
BATH. 
A Sphinx, badly executed. BX.R. 
No present day collector apparently has seen 
this type ; it is only known from the descrip- 
tion of a contemporary writer. 
Although not strictly tokens, yet possibly used 
as such, and in any case of interest as contem- 
porary are the copper halfpence of George IT. 
countermarked THOMAS, NO. 3, COCK LANE, 
BATH, CUTLER. The lane is now known as 
Union Passage, the latter name coming into 
use in 1796. 
The finest specimens of the tokens are the 
“Bath Building” series, and there is little 
doubt their issue was the outcome of the 
demand by collectors of the time for artistic 
work, but although they were sold encased in 
small squares of paper, and at a price far 
beyond their value, the worn condition of 
some of the more common types permit of the 
opinion that they often passed into circulation 
at their size, or halfpenny value. 
