1812 AD., England, Yorkshire, Hull, Picard´s lead works, Penny Token, Davis Yorkshire 82.
England, Yorkshire, Hull, Picard´s lead works, 1812 AD.,
Æ Penny Token (33-34 mm / 16,73 g),
Obv.: ONE PENNY / HULL LEAD WORKS .*. / PAYABLE IN BANK OF ENGD. OR HULL NOTES BY I. K. PICARD , legend on four lines in centre and around periphery.
Rev.: 1812 , view of lead works in full production with smoking chimneys and date in exergue.
Withers No. 755 ; Davis Yorkshire No. 82 .
Picard, the issuer and owner of the lead works, spent some of his time in London and took to gambling his fortune away, eventually becoming bankrupt in 1827 and dying in reduced circumstances in 1843.