Trade token (obverse), Halfpenny, of Gilbert Shearer & Company, Glasgow

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This is the obverse of a 1796 copper halfpenny trade token of Gilbert Shearer & Company of Glasgow.

The obverse depicts the arms of Glasgow with the surrounding motto, 'LET GLASGOW FLOURISH'.

Glasgow's arms feature a bird, a tree, a bell, a ring and a fish inside a shield. These objects all represent some item in the study of the life of St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.

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• Online ID: 000-100-103-363-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1961.769
• Date: 1791
  1796
  
• Material: Copper; very slight wear. Inscription: Obv.: LET GLASGOW FLOURISH; shield of arms. Rev.: NUNQUAM ARESCERE; river-god facing right, reclining on an urn, inscribed CLYDE, from which water flows; in exergue, MDCCXCI, with R . D ., in small letters, below.
  Coin Type: Dalton and Hamer, Lanarkshire 2
  Trade token
  
• Dimensions: Diameter 29.00 mm; weight 13.24 g; die axis 6.5
  
• What: Coin Type: Dalton and Hamer, Lanarkshire 2
  Trade token
  
• Subject: Trade Tokens
  
• Who: Gilbert Shearer and Co. (Issuers)
  
• Where: England, Birmingham, Soho mint
  Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
  
• Event:
• Description: Copper halfpenny trade token of Gilbert Shearer and Co., Glasgow, Lanarkshire, 1791
  
• References:
  • Keay, J. & J. (eds). Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. London: HarperCollins, 1994, p 429. 
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