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Create new listThe issuer was Archibald James Hamilton (1793-1834), who served as a Lieutenant in the 4th Dragoons in the Peninsula and with the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo before retiring from the army on grounds of ill-health in 1816. In retirement he successfully farmed the Dalzell estates, paying workers with suitably countermarked 5-franc pieces brought back from France in 1816.
Scotland, DALZELL (Lanarkshire), Dalzell Farm, a France, Republic, 5 Francs, AN 5q, [1796/7] Perpignan, rev. countermarked payable at dalzell farm, six-petalled rosette, 24.79g/6h (Manville 20; Hodge 020S.004a, this coin; Hodge SNC October 2006, pp.265-7; KM. CC22). Coin nearly very fine, countermark better, rare, the only Perpignan mint available to commerce £1,500-£2,000
Purchased from a New York dealer via H. Manville.
28 known with 8 in institutions.
Most known specimens are struck with the countermark neatly encircling the figure 5 on the host coin - suggesting that they were intended to circulate at a value of 5 Shillings.
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