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Create new listThe issuer was John Cartwright (1740-1824), proprietor of the Revolution Mill, built on the north side of Spital Hill, Retford, and opened in 1788. The mill was in disuse by the turn of the 19th century and after the building was sold in 1805, Cartwright moved to London.
England, East Retford (Nottinghamshire), Revolution Mill, a Mexico, Charles III, 8 Reales, 1777fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked with a crowned ampersand, 26.88g/12h (Manville 105; Hodge 105E.002a, this coin; Davis 41). Traces of brooch mount on obverse, otherwise coin and countermark nearly very fine £600-£800
Ernest Danson Collection, Numismatic Society of Nottingham Auction, 12 October 2004, lot unspecified.
10 known with 4 in institutions.
“The lack of an issuer’s name and a denomination place this countermark early in the countermarking period, before marks began to show more details. In fact the mark might never have been connected with the Revolution Mill had it not been for a notation by Sarah Sophia Banks in her acquisitions notebook... that she had received one in 1794.” [Manville p.210].
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