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Mining, Cumberland, Gilcrux, Gilcrux Colliery, Quayle & Peile, copper, legend both sides, 28mm, 8.24g/6h (Finlay 98; D & W 288/77). Two minor reverse edge nicks, otherwise good fine, very rare £80-100

In 1831 Gilcrux colliery was leased by the Dykes family, of Dovenby Hall, to William Quayle (†1837) and Williamson Peile, for a period of 21 years. Quayle committed suicide on 12 July 1837 by throwing himself down a mine shaft after being accused by Williamson Peile’s father, John Peile, Lord Lonsdale’s colliery steward, of embezzling £3,700 from the proceeds of coal sales at Whitehaven