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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 1879762, member: 4580&quot;]<b>DH-471 • Richardson&#039;s, 1795 Blue Coat Boy &amp; Lottery Wheels</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Halfpenny, plain edge.&nbsp; Fully patinated. Gem Uncirculated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a description provided by abccoinsandtokens.com, dealer David Stuart in England.</p><p>He&#039;s not the dealer who provided this token to me, though I have been a customer of</p><p>David Stuart in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Rare Richardson&#039;s London (Middlesex) copper Conder halfpenny token dated 1795. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Obverse: View of a &quot;Bluecoat Boy&quot; (one of the scholars of Christ&#039;s Hospital) </b></p><p><b>preparing to draw from an 18th century lottery wheel with a cornucopia </b></p><p><b>of money dividing the date in the exergue and legend: &quot;NOTHING VENTURE NOTHING HAVE 1795&quot;.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Reverse: Legend on seven lines and round circumference: &quot;RICHARDSON GOODLUCK &amp; CO SOLD NO 12807 THE LAST PRIZE OF £30000 SHARED IN SIXTEENTHS&quot;. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Listed in Dalton &amp; Hamer as<b>&quot;RARE&quot;</b>. Richardson, Goodluck &amp; Co., were stock-brokers and lottery-office keepers with a business at No. 104 Bank Building, Cornhill in the City, and at No. 8 Charing Cross in the West End of London. Goodluck was an old country woman who was made a partner purely for the use of her name. She received a payment of £50.00 per year and had no further interest in the firm.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/My%20Main%20Album/After%205-5-2012/M-471-OBV-800-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/My%20Main%20Album/After%205-5-2012/M-471-REV-800-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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