拍品 575
575
Isle of Man, The Douglas Bank Co. (Littler, Dove & Co.), Douglas, pattern token Shilling in copper, undated (1811), probably by Halliday for Edward Thomason, view of Peel Castle from the sea, sailing ship in foreground, rev. the rim beaded as the obverse, the field blank except for S ·ASH across centre, with incuse A stamped obliquely over the A of ASH (Davis 7; M.104; Pr.49; W.2059a), very fine, traces of silvering within the details, extremely rare
Isle of Man, The Douglas Bank Co. (Littler, Dove & Co.), Douglas, pattern token Shilling in copper, undated (1811), probably by Halliday for Edward Thomason, view of Peel Castle from the sea, sailing ship in foreground, rev. the rim beaded as the obverse, the field blank except for S ·ASH across centre, with incuse A stamped obliquely over the A of ASH (Davis 7; M.104; Pr.49; W.2059a), very fine, traces of silvering within the details, extremely rare

细节
Isle of Man, The Douglas Bank Co. (Littler, Dove & Co.), Douglas, pattern token Shilling in copper, undated (1811), probably by Halliday for Edward Thomason, view of Peel Castle from the sea, sailing ship in foreground, rev. the rim beaded as the obverse, the field blank except for S ·ASH across centre, with incuse A stamped obliquely over the A of ASH (Davis 7; M.104; Pr.49; W.2059a), very fine, traces of silvering within the details, extremely rare

拍品专文

"Apparently a trial or test piece of the shilling. Four specimens are recorded" - Pridmore
From the style of the reverse it seems equally likely that this was a pattern for another issuer, for which the die bearing the view was 'borrowed', a practice not unknown. However to date no record has been traced of a local trader of that name. It remains an enigmatic and certainly extremely rare issue.