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Some Old Coppers. 



of Pain: " on the reverse, with date 1797, and the words "French 

 Beforms," is a deep bowl called " Fraternity, " (in which is sunk 

 the cross), and from it flow in copious streams, Regicide — Robbery 

 — Falsity and Requisition. 



Such matters as the abolition of the Slave trade, are not passed 

 by ; some of the coins bearing the likeness of a chained negro, with 

 a fitting inscription. Another celebrates the Dunmore Flitch of 

 Bacon ; and thus a multitude of curious circumstances and customs 

 are kept from oblivion. 



Wiltshire had its half-pence as well as other counties, and this 

 paper will conclude with the description of some of them. 



First as to those payable in Salisbury : one dated 1791, has on 

 the obverse, the likeness of some man in a tie-wig, and on the 

 reverse, the initials W. G. M. Another (date 1796), gives a view 

 on the obverse of "the Cathedral Church of Sarum ; " and on the 

 reverse the Grocer's arms, with the words "fine teas," and on the 

 rim, " Payable at J. & T. Sharpe, Salisbury." One issued in 1796 

 at Devizes, has on the obverse, a stag, with " J. Baster, Devizes, 

 Wilts ; and on the reverse, the arms of the town." The Wiltshire 

 Yeomanry had a token of their own : on the obverse, with the date 

 of 1794, is a mounted Yeoman at full galop, with drawn sword, 

 and the words " Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry ; " on the reverse, 

 three mounted yeomen, two with drawn swords, the other bearing 

 a flag, with the words " their token," and beneath are the initials 

 P. A. ET. F., (Pro aris et focis). Two tokens were issued at 

 Holt, near Melksham : both have the same obverse, viz., a very 

 stout winged figure, probabhy intended for "fame" blowing a 

 trumpet, and holding in the left hand a victor's wreath : with the 

 words "Holt Wiltshire Mineral Water, discovered 1558." One 

 of these tokens has on the reverse, a view of the Spa House, and 

 underneath it the announcement "Neat Lodgings," and the initial 

 B, and round the coin, " Sold by John Griffiths, No. 27, St. Albans 

 Street, London. The other has nothing on the reverse but the 

 words " Sold at the Spa House, Holt, by D. Arnot proprietor, and 

 by John Griffiths No. 27, St. Albans Street, London. There seems 

 a doubt whether these two latter coins were ever intended to 



