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Numismatics International Bulletin (pg. 9)

9/1/2017 Numismatics

September October 2017 _ NI Bulletin Vol 52 Nos 9 10 for Lanark Mills under the name of the Gourock Ropework Co Ltd purchasers of the business in 1903 under reference UGD42 It was nearly two years later in January 2004 that I was able to visit the archives at Glasgow University Under their reference UGD42 9 1 18 in their computerized listings was nd Print showing details of 5 token payable at New Lanark Mills 4 prints This was the first file

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 720)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

Notes on Some Issuers of Counter marker Spanish Dollars 641 tion that 20 000 persons from home and abroad had visited New Lanark between 1815 and 1825 In 1830 the mills were still in possession of the New Lanark Twist Co with Walker Co maintaining a yarn warehouse in Glasgow but by 1840 the whole business was in the hands of Walker Co and so continued until 1880 In 1881 Mr Henry Birkmyre a member of the family which controlled and still controls the Gourock Ropework Co Ltd and Mr R G Somerville then Pr

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 183)

/2012 Numismatics Periodicals

tricted terms of their issue within the local area The link with Donald of Birmingham 3 is most intriguing No association is currently known between the two merchants Besides it is unlikely that the Donald mark on a French ecu would have been accepted in the trade and may therefore be the reason the coin was retained as a keepsake eventually finding its way to Scotland 4 Payable at Lanark Mills around 5 countermark on the obverse of a French Louis XV ecu of 1742 mint mark L Bayonne Fig 4 Fig 4 Louis XV ecu 1742 with Lanark Mills countermark National Museums of Scotland Lanark Mills used two types of privy marks 34 All Lanark Mills 5 marks currently consid ered genuine use the lozenge privy mark This coin is the only non 8 reales host and the only star pri

Numismatics International Bulletin (pg. 28)

11/1/2018 Numismatics

NI Bulletin Vol 53 Nos 11 12 November December 2018 Dale s money Spinning commenced in 1786 In the following years more mills were built on the site In the early 1790 s William Kelly at the Lanark Mills invented a great gear which allowed the easier transfer of power from the water wheel to the spinning jennies This in turn reduced the heavy work required in the mill so allowing the employment of women and children rather than men Consequently large families were actively recruited because children could now manage the Jennies while their mothers were employed elsewhere Could this b

International Bank Note Society Journal (Issue 1, 2012) (pg. 40)

1/1/2012 Paper Money

cunians and Scots In the first two cases statues of him have been erected in Newtown Powys where a Robert Owen Museum has also been established and in central Manchester where he first came to national attention In Scotland meanwhile a campaign has been launched to feature him on a Scottish banknote which if it happens would make him one of the first non Scots to be so depicted The New Lanark site of his initial social experiments already appears on the current Clydesdale Bank 20 note P299K one of a new series featuring World Heritage Sites in Scotland Owen has been portrayed by some as the first of the modern Utopians and he was certainly an influential philanthropist social reformer and industrialist Born in Newtown in 1771 the son of a saddler he left home at the age of te

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 714)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

was in the Bliss collection on a Mexico dollar dated 1793 and is now in the Royal Scottish Museum Another specimen numbered 2399 on a Mexico dollar dated 1797 which was in the Thellusson Paget and Lingford collections is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland There is another specimen numbered 2317 on a Mexico dollar dated 1785 PI XXXVI 17 I do not know of any others Lanarkshire Davis records 83 payable at Lanark mills in a circle and in the centre 5 incuse 84 Similar but value 4 9 in large incuse figures 85 PAYABLE at Lanark mills in a circle and in the centre 4 6 incuse 86 Similar but with the additional countermark p on the right No 83 has appeared more frequently than any other countermark and on a wide spread of seventeen dates from 1777 to

NI Bulletin (pg. 14)

5/1/2016 Numismatics

NI Bulletin Vol 51 Nos 5 6 _ Mav June 2016 Scotland and teamed up with Dale to build the Lanark Mills using Arkwright s patents and Dale s money Spinning commenced in 1786 In the following years more mills were built on the site In the early 1790 s William Kelly at the Lanark Mills invented a great gear which allowed the easier transfer of power from the water wheel to the spinning jennies This in turn reduced the heavy work required in the mill so allowing the employment of women

Numismatics International Bulletin (pg. 8)

9/1/2017 Numismatics

NI Bulletin Vol 52 Nos 9 10 September October 2017 A Coin Found Eric C Hodge NI 2784 Most merchant countermarked dollars appear in the saleroom Some are discovered in markets or at car boot sales This one was found in a book page 53 to be precise I acquired the book 1 in May 2002 and on page 53 was a photograph of the obverse of a Payable at Lanark Mills 5 merchant countermarked eight reales also referred to as a dollar of Charles IIII dated 1799 Figure 1 Over the years I have built up a photographic library of these British merchant countermarked silver coins which currently amounts to over 900 examples Out of interest I checked my photographic library and provenance details for more information on this particular coin To my ama

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 718)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

und the places of work They appreciated the human problems the new conditions created and realized the responsibilities placed upon them which each sought to discharge Their efforts may not seem much judged by the standards of our time but they were considerable at the turn of the eighteenth nineteenth centuries Some account of the mills with which these men were associated is now given New Lanark The site chosen by Dale and Arkwright in 1783 was on the Braxfield estate a little below the Corra Linn Falls on the Clyde The two men entered into a partnership Dale providing the capital and Arkwright the permission to use his mechanical methods The mill began to work in 1785 was the largest in the world at the time and was so suc cessful that a second mill was built But when this was nea

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 724)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

leases on which cottages were built with space for raising food crops and for keeping a cow The tenants were mainly weavers and the system was not a success for they possessed neither the physical strength nor the appropriate clothes for outdoor work With Abram Combe he started a much larger scheme called the Orbiston Com munity to apply the principles of Owen as he had applied them at New Lanark but it unfortunately also failed Hamilton whose health never fully recovered from the stress of campaigning died young in 1834 He married in 1819 and the Barony of Hamilton of Dalzell was created in favour of his son in 1886 and the dignity is held by his great grandson today 1 Such is the information I have been able to gather about some of the issuers of these interesting tokens The ab

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 269)

/2009 Numismatics Periodicals

09 Short Art 1731 8 1 10 09 46 Page 244 244 SHORT ARTICLES AND NOTES discussed above these two details have been engraved on the one die other than the Catrine 5 6 where it is punched separately over 4 9 There are two separate outer name punches both showing Payable at Lanark Mills but one has a lozenge stop between Mills and Payable and the other a star stop It would appear that a lot of effort has been made to use each of these punches with the relevant value punch The 5 and 4 9 values use the lozenge stop Fig 13 while the 4 6 value uses both the lozenge and the star and in all cases has an additional punch mark of a shield and quatrefoil rather in the sh

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 188)

/2012 Numismatics Periodicals

ck three to 3 o clock six to 6 o clock and nine to 9 o clock All three of the believed fake stamps one on an 8 reales 55 and the two discussed here show the stroke to 12 o clock Perhaps this indicates too much attention to detail It is not considered possible that either countermarked coin would have been used in trade during the period 1818 to 1830 Fig 13 Brazilian 960 reis 1815 with Lanark Mills countermark no 16 DNW sale 71 September 2006 lot 1033 16 17 Two Payable at Lanark Mills around 5 countermarks under the obverse of Brazilian 960 reis of 1815 and 1819 mint marks R Rio de Janeiro Only coin 16 is supported by a photograph Fig 13 which clearly shows that the Lanark mark was made before the 960 reis For this article it is assumed the same applies

Numismatics International Bulletin (pg. 27)

11/1/2018 Numismatics

f Crowns and bad halfpennys It is the French half Crowns or half ecus that we are interested in and the entries showing the profit made on the stamping can be used to calculate an issue value of 2 6 The fact that the French coins were referred to as half Crowns tends to support this issue valuation Figure 11 Figure 11 close up 4 The final official issue of French half ecus is from the Lanark Mills Lanark Mills issued countermarked coins to the value of 5 4 9 4 6 and 2 6 We know the half ecus were issued at 2 6 because that is the amount marked on the coin figure 12 There are two distinct types for the 2 6 issue one showing Payable at Lanark Mills with 2 6 in the center and a second issue with a similar countermark but with a separate secondary mark that appears to be a shie

International Bank Note Society Journal (September 1968) (pg. 31)

9/1/1968 Paper Money

had four mills at work driven by the waters of the Clyde giving employment to 1 334 workers to house whom he had built the village of New Lanark Unable to obtain workers in the district he employed a large number of children from Edinburgh and Glasgow poor houses He made excellent arrangements for their maintenance and education He was also a partner for a time in cotton mills at Catrine Biantyre and at Spinningdale on the Firth of Dornoch among others It was in the Blantyre Mills that David Livingstone later went to work as a pie

International Bank Note Society Journal (Issue 3, 2005) (pg. 34)

7/1/2005 Paper Money

an Edinburgh director of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1777 David Dale became the agent for the Bank of Scotland in Glasgow from 1783 His friendship with Richard Arkwright 1732 92 the English inventor and manufacturer who had introduced his patented cotton spinning machin ery in England led to David Dale jointly with Arkwright building their own mill on the banks of the River Clyde at New Lanark where there was adequate water power to run the machinery using Arkwright s patent When the patent was challenged and invalidated in a UK court the neces sity for the company to pay any patent rights lapsed the partnership was dissolved leaving Dale the sole owner Dale s mill was a great success and employed a large number of operatives and made him a very rich man Further mills in which Dav

Paper Money (January/February 1986) (pg. 22)

1/1/1986 Numismatics

14000 CHARTERED BANKS TO ISSUE 50 NOTES charter number bank title and location notes issued serials notes circu lated notes cancelled serials 14021 The FBN of Boulder Colo 492 1 492 138 354 139 492 14024 The Charleston N V 111 564 1 564 407 157 408 564 14236 Central N B McKinney Tx 72 1 72 53 19 54 73 14273 Citizens N B Brownwood Tx 192 1 192 _ 8 184 185 192 14297 N B of Lanark 111 72 1 72 48 24 49 72 The Lanark National Bank of Lanark Illinois was the highest chartered National bank to issue 50 national bank notes during its life span of 72 years 1863 thru 1935 of the National Bank Note Issuing period notes reported not reported anyone have one

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 89)

/1970 Numismatics Periodicals

72 THE LONG VOIDED CROSS STERLINGS OF V B figs 94b c The die link between Alex and Aleter of Dun in type III has been noted above 1 in type IV Alex has an obverse die link with Stirling B figs 94d e Type V though struck by Alex belongs predominantly to Wilam the only other mint of which it is recorded is Lanark and then the obverse die was one used by Wilam at Edinburgh also A single reverse die exists with the name Nicol Its proper obverse is of type VI B fig 94 but both these dies are paired with the dies of some curious coins of type III with the enigmatic reverse inscription Wifanerter Nicol s coins with the mint signature Ed must presumably be attributed to Edinburgh but in that case th

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 94)

/1970 Numismatics Periodicals

p 72 n Dunbar very unlikely 100 73 1 d This reverse die links with coins of Aberdeen and is probably not of Edinburgh 105 8 267 313 59 62 732c 97 775 Probably Dumfries certainly not Forres 109 14 117 18 61a 63 64a b 65 732a b Probably Forfar certainly not Forres 115 64c Adam of Roxburgh not Forfar 116 61b Doubtful mint 140 1 239 71 738 88 Renfrew not Kinghorn 146 72b Not Lanark probably Fres fr 148 240 72c 89b Probably not Lanark 156 65 Passim The moneyer is Ion Cokin not Corin 209 12 82 751 3 Ayr really type III not V 213 15 83a 754a Type VIII not V 229 84 Type VIII not V probably Dumfries 230 83f Apparently a left facing bust var of type VII not V 231 3 85 756 7 Type III not V 234 Apparently not in sale Lockett photographs pi IV 81 same o

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 181)

/2012 Numismatics Periodicals

178 HODGE TABLE 1 Continued No Year host issued Details of countermark Host coin Manville 2001 ref No of photos Date 4 1742 Payable at Lanark Mills 51 Fig 4 ecu 070 1 1930 5 1732 Cromford Derbyshire 4 9 Fig 5 a ecu 104 56 1989 6 1784 Cromford Derbyshire 4 9 Fig 5 b ecu 104 56 B of E 30 7 1806 Dugd McLachlan Mercht Tobermory 5 on obverse reverse Fig 6 5 francs 099 4 1950 8 1673 Galston Friendly Society 5 No 12 Fig 7 51 033 9 1891 9 1707 DC Fig 8 51 051 17 1910 10 1668 Yelloley s Pottery Ouseburn 5 Fig 9

NI Bulletin (pg. 13)

5/1/2016 Numismatics

son of the great Matthew Boulton in Cartmel parish church The Cark Cotton Mill was eventually sold in 1814 and was used as a grain store until it was burned to the ground in 1935 Cark House the original home of the Stockdales still stands to this day It has now been converted to flats but remains as a monument to one of the early pioneers of countermarked currency Dundee Deanston Balfron Lanark Saltcoats Galston Steve nstone Fin try C npsie eno cK _ 1 I Port Glasacw J fPaisle Blau tyre Daby o i DalzeU X 1 Johnstone Beith Hurlet J Barrhead Rothsay i Lochwinnoch Figure 15 We now travel to Scotland Fig 15 and in appendix 15a to look at a selection of the tokens issued by the burgeoning industrial concerns around Glasgow One of the biggest of these businesses was the

Scrip Talk: April 1980 Issue (pg. 21)

4/1/1980 Numismatics Numismatics Scrip Periodicals

s 1975 Set 5 to 1 14 10 10 pc 1976 7 60 LAKIN S OFFUTT Rowlesburg WV 1 listing 25C br sld unk 1976 2 75 LAMAR COLLIERY Algonquin WV 5 listings 1978 set 5 to 1 66 50 It had a MB of 55 00 5 3 10C 2 1 l also sold The 1 went for 8 35 LAMAR COLLIERY Lamar WV 13 listings Most are for 1 5 or 10c One set only offered 1 5 5 10 10 to 5 MB 50 00 NB Lanark COALS INC Lanark WV 8 listings of which 6 were for 5 10 25 50 and 1 was for 1c thru 50c LP 1 00 HP 13 10 for the 1 thru 50c The 1C is very tough still need it LANARK FU EL CO 2 listings both 1976 50 1 Oreo 1 15 30 1 alone 9 00 LANDGRAFF GENE RAL STORE 4 listings 4 sets sold James 8 00 to 1978 22 50 An attractive set My set from Ar cil when I was a beginne

Numismatics International Bulletin (pg. 10)

9/1/2017 Numismatics

the correspondence had been between Mr Whetmore and the Publicity Department of Gourock Ropework Co Ltd However on the 1 May 1957 an internal memorandum from Mr H E Semple Managing Director of the Gourock Ropework Co Ltd to his Publicity Department states If you are writing to Mr Whetmore you might ask him if it would be possible for us to obtain one of these coins used in the New Lanark Mills and if so how to go about it Here we have the first indication of why there was a photograph of a Lanark Mills 5 countermark in the Gourock Ropework files In a letter to Mr Whetmore dated 6 May 1957 the Publicity Department says Our Chairman would like if possible to obtain one of these coins and we should like to know how to go about this Perhaps you can advise me In his

Equilibrium (pg. 47)

/1978 Numismatics Periodicals Scales

nt 2 London City _ Ill 3 Edinburgh City _Ill 4 London Co 5 Manchester City _Originally a Bedford Co No 6 Birmingham City _Ill 7 Nottingham City _ _ Cross three crowns 8 Bedford Co _Ill 9 E w Cornwall Co _ L ch Ill 10 13 Bedford Co obs 14 Bradford City _ Ill 13 Banff Co 16 Renfrew Bo 17 Renfrew Co 18 19 Derby Co _Ill 20 Margate Bo 21 London Co 22 Forfar Co 23 Coatbridge Bo 24 25 Lanark Co Ill 26 Lanark Co _ obs 27 Maidstone Bo 28 London Co 29 Middlesex Co _ _ Shield with three scimitars 30 London Co 31 Middlesex Co 32 33 Stafford Co Staffordshire knot 34 36 Glasgow City __ Ill 37 Sheffield City_ Ill 38 Bath City _ Ill 39 Bedford Bo _ __ Ill 40 Beverly Bo 41 Hull City Three crowns over HULL 42 Canterbury City 43 44 Cumberland Co 45 48 Cumberland Co obs 49 50

International Bank Note Society Journal (September 1968) (pg. 30)

9/1/1968 Paper Money

s on a large scale He acquired not long after its erection by an English company at Rothesay the first cotton mill in Scotland Dale then arranged to engage in cotton spinning with Arkwright inventor of the spinning jenny during the latter s visit to Scotland Arkwright was entertained at a public dinner in Glasgow at which Dale was present They went together to the fails of the Clyde near Lanark where they fixed on the site of what became New Lanark Dale began building his first mill there in 1785 and shortly afterwards dissolved his connection with Arkwright By 1795 he twenty eight

International Bank Note Society Journal (March 1972) (pg. 43)

3/1/1972 Paper Money

ble to operate on his own By now he was in touch with all the leading yarn spinners in England and Scotland His ideas were ahead of his time in fact he was instrumental in establishing an Old Age Pension Scheme for his employees made possible with a deduction from their weekly wage packets Among the important people he met was David Dale 1738 1806 a noted philanthropist and founder of the Lanark Mills Scotland David Dale also held the important position of Agent for the Glasgow Branch of the Royal Bank of Scot land He is still remembered today Collectors of the Scottish series of Bank Notes wifi find the picture of David Dale on the 1968 One Pound note of the Royal Bank of Scotland Robert Owen became engaged to Ann Caroline Dale whom he married on September 30th 1799 at that time

International Bank Note Society Journal (Issue 1, 2012) (pg. 44)

1/1/2012 Paper Money

wn if these had any connection to the exchanges operated by Robert Owen many similar but smaller operations sprang up around the same time Acknowledgements Robert Owen Museum Newtown Powys British Museum London Ashmolean Museum Oxford Ian Gradon Colin Narbeth Son Ltd Roger Outing Sources G D H Cole Life of Robert Owen London Ernest Benn Ltd 1923 Margaret Cole Robert Owen of New Lanark Oxford University Press 1953 David J McLaren David Dale of New Lanark Heatherbank Press 1983 W H Oliver The Labour Exchange Phase of the Co operative Movement 1958 article in Oxford Economic Papers Roger Outing The Standard Catalogue of the Provincial Banknotes of England Wales Token Publishing 2010 F Podmore Robert Owen A Biography Appleton 1907 Test Your Knowledge

Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin: April 1965 (pg. 13)

4/1/1965 Numismatic Periodicals

t one of the ports was at Poole a coin of Tauromenium Sicily was found near an Early Iron Age settlement there and Greek coins are found most thickly concentrated in this part of Dorset The main ports were probably Exeter and Plymouth There are few finds of Greek objects other than coins in Britain except for some pottery also from the South West I have already mentioned a Greek coin from Lanark and Greek coins have been found all over the British Isles Readers of this Bulletin will remember a letter in Dec i960 reporting the discovery of a coin of Neapolis in Campania in Derby Coins of Neapolis have been found at Carrawbrugh Acton Scott Salop Abbey Stickton and Stickland Dorset It is interesting to note that normally the further away from Dorset the coins are found the more

Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin: November 1965 (pg. 11)

11/1/1965 Numismatic Periodicals

scrupulous antique dealers The firm distributing these describe them as exact replicas on the card which accompanies each but the card is soon discarded Unlike the British Museum they have no signature on the coins in the field to show that they are copies and not originals It is a matter of grave concern to numismatists that they should have chosen this way of selling their wares A Lanark Sterling of Alexander III My attention is drawn to a new Class III sterling of Alexander III with the reverse legend reading wilam on l the n of on being ligatured with the arm of the cross This would seem to be a variant of the type without the ligature The coin was sold by this firm in 1957 but its pedigree is not known The typology of the coins of the Lanark mint may now be sum

Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin: October 1967 (pg. 33)

10/1/1967 Numismatic Periodicals

SCOTTISH CROWNS 403 SC514 Lanark Mills payable at Lanark mills around an incuse 5 Struck on a Mexico City eight reals of 1799 D 84 Plate 70 F 42 10 SC515 Paisley Renfrew j muir Manufr paisley 5 in centre Some obliteration marks R Prince of Wales plumes Struck on a Mexico City eight reals of 1810 Ex Vassalo and Whetmore colls D 113 Plate 71 nearly VF 65 SC516 mc g c paisley 5 in centre McG

Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin: April 1974 (pg. 12)

4/1/1974 Numismatic Periodicals

entirely die out and there is a fine pendant of the tenth century from Winchester which has as its centrepiece an imitation of a penny of Edward the Elder In medieval times some coins appear to have been used as amulets The most famous example is the Lee Penny a groat of Edward I with a stone set in its centre which has traditionally been held by the Lockhart family of the Lee estate near Lanark Scotland It was used as a charm for curing disease the water in which it was dipped being vested with remarkable properties It seems to have been par ticularly useful for curing rabies and was still used even in the nineteenth century The following quotation from W Davidson s History of Lanark 1828 is given here as a paraphrase does not do it justice

The Bankers Magazine [vol. 25] (pg. 673)

/1871

s and of the public in their hands it is but just to all concerned to state that after a full and complete investigation of all their affairs the committee are unanimous in the opinion that such is not the case On the contrary their failure seems to the committee to have arisen from an over generosity on their part in extending credit and confidence in many instances where it was not due Lanark The First National Bank of Lanark Carroll Coupty 111 No 1755 was organized in December with a capital of 50 000 limited to 100 000 President Romanzo G Shumway Cashier Giles F Van Vechten Their New York correspondent is the Ninth National Bank Iowa The Merchants National Bank of Burlington Des Moines County No 1744 was organized in December with a capital of 10

Paper Money (September/October 2006) (pg. 30)

9/1/2006 Numismatics

IL None Yes 1929 T2 5 10 20 13 14252 FNB in Pierre Pierre SD None Yes 1929 T2 10 20 8 14261 Goshen NB Bethesda OH None No 1929 72 10 4 14273 Citizens NB at Brown wood TX None No 1929 T2 10 20 50 1 14282 Wymore NB Wymore NE None No 1929 T2 10 20 12 14283 Bexar County NB San Antonio TX None Yes 1929 T2 5 10 20 12 14285 Mount Olive NB Mount Olive IL None No 1929 T2 100 5 14297 NB of Lanark Lanark IL None No 192912 10 20 50 7 14302 Stockmens NB Cotulla TX None No 1929 T2 10 20 2 14304 NB of Commerce Pawhuska OK None No 1929 T2 20 4 14305 NB of West NY West NY NJ None No 1929 T2 5 10 20 2 14320 Liberty NB TC Louisville KY None Yes 1929 T2 10 63 Note Reported circulation based on Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports 1929 1935

Paper Money (September/October 2006) (pg. 34)

9/1/2006 Numismatics

e 9 1 1934 2 18 1935 First notes issued in 1935 14273 Citizens NB at Brownwood TX None 6 13 1934 3 8 1935 First notes Issued In 1935 14282 Wymore NB Wymore NE None 9 22 1934 1 4 1935 First notes issued in 1935 14283 Bexar County NB San Antonio TX None 10 10 1934 1 19 1935 First notes issued in 1935 14285 Mount Olive NB Mount Olive IL None 7 20 1934 2 23 1935 First notes issued in 1935 14297 NB of Lanark Lanark IL None 10 25 1934 12 28 1934 Notes not received until January 1935 14302 Stockmens NB Cotulla TX None 9 25 1934 1 21 1935 First notes issued in 1935 14304 NB of Commerce Pawhuska OK None 11 21 1934 3 5 1935 First notes issued In 1935 14305 NB of West NY West NY NJ None 10 25 1934 2 14 1935 First notes issued in 1935 14320 Notes Liberty NB TC Louisville KY None 1 8 1935 2 6 1935 First not

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 716)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

c fame and Monsieur Papillon a Frenchman for dyeing cotton to a shade known as Turkey Red Possibly at about this time he acquired the Rothesay Cotton Works In 1783 Richard Arkwright paid a visit from Cromford to Glasgow where he met Dale and James Finlay at a dinner given him by Glas gow notables A few days afterwards Dale and Arkwright fixed the site for a cotton spinning mill and the New Lanark Mill was built in 1784 In the following year in partnership with James Monteith the construction of a cotton mill at Blantyre Works began Shortly after manufacture was established at New Lanark about 1785 Dale went into partnership with Claud Alexander in building a cotton spinning mill at Catrine Dale was a remarkable man much given to practical philanthropy deeply religious founding h

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 717)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

as a shop boy but after some years succeeded in obtaining the position of manager of a cotton mill in Chorlton Lancashire In 1794 5 the Chorlton Twist Company was formed in which Owen was a partner His business took him to Glasgow to buy materials and on one visit he met Dale s eldest daughter Anne Caroline and there seems to have been mutual attraction Hearing that Dale wished to sell New Lanark Owen sought an interview but was regarded as a kind of youthful interloper Dale was therefore surprised when Owen returned with his partners after they had made a thorough examination of the property a transaction to be described later was concluded and Owen entered as he said on the govern ment of New Lanark in January 1800 As to Anne Caroline in spite of great differences in relig

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 719)

/1955 Numismatics Periodicals

640 Notes on Some Issuers of Counter marker Spanish Dollars undertaking although he did not at first as already stated take kindly to Robert Owen as a buyer Owen s partners were Messrs Borrowdale Atkinson of London and Messrs Bartons of Manchester finally found by Dale to be acceptable and the property passed to them in 1799 The New Lanark Twist Company was formed to own the property Owen after his marriage with Miss Dale returned to Manchester but the new proprietors becoming dissatisfied with the management Owen returned to be resident manager of New Lanark from the beginning of 1800 After an examination of the position Owen dismissed the managers arranged for new machinery decided no more children should be received im

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 99)

/1958 Numismatics Periodicals

THE BRUSSELS HOARD 93 of the type of variety A in the following list all are of var A unless otherwise indicated Mints Aberdeen Alexander 3 reverses 7 9 Andreas 1 reverse 12 1 3 Ion 2 reverses 10 11 Berwick Robert 3 reverses 14 16 Wallace 1 reverse var B 17 18 Robert and Wallace 1 reverse 19 Glasgow Walter Var A 7 revs 20 28 var C 3 revs 29 31 Lanark Wilam 2 reverses 32 33 Perth Ion Corin Var A 3 revs 35 37 Var B 1 rev 34 Roxburgh Andrew 1 reverse var B 38 Michel 1 reverse 39 Type IIL Obverse A small head to left with neat crown the band of which is usually shown but occasionally the band and ornaments are represented by pellets only in front sceptre with head a cross pommee the handle often ornamented with

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 100)

/1958 Numismatics Periodicals

94 THE BRUSSELS HOARD Lanark The face is larger and taller than on types III and VIII and the lettering is large and thick The Glasgow coin b fig 102 stands alone and is probably a left head variety of type VII Burns figs 94 a b and c are true type V coins Mints Edinburgh Alexander 3 reverses 216 18 Wilan 10 reverses 219 28 Kinghorn Wilam 3 reverses 231 3 Lanark Wilam 1 reverse 134 Type VL Ta

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 101)

/1958 Numismatics Periodicals

of the Berwick issues Two tables best show the merits of the Baldwin classification while suggesting also that some modification of the eight types could be made The first is of mints and types Aberdeen I II III b IV V VI VII b VIII St Andrews b b Ayr b b b Berwick b b b DVN b Edinburgh b b b b b FOR b FRES b b Glasgow b b b Inverness b KING RIN b b Lanark b b b Montrose b Perth b b b Roxburgh b b b b b Stirling b b TERWILANER b b The second table is a summary of the die links between types as noted by Baldwin with some which he overlooked The list of examples is probably not quite complete but it seems unlikely that any further discoveries would do more than strengthen the existing pattern 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Ale

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 102)

/1958 Numismatics Periodicals

e with the evidence of the coins Type IV appears to be a late variety of type III type V is common at Edinburgh but otherwise hardly exists whilst type VI again seems to have been a variety peculiar to a few moneyers only Five main groups might be distinguished Group A is the type with un crowned head to right Ba type II the first main issue struck by the four big mints with Glasgow and Lanark Group B is the largest in number of mints moneyers dies and coins and consists of Ba type III and its variety Ba type IV in other words many of the coins with a crowned bust to the left several new mints were opened for this issue St Andrews Ayr Dun Edin burgh For Fres Inverness Kinghorn Montrose and Stirling Six of these do not coin again and it must be supposed that th

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 71)

/1974 Numismatics Periodicals

of the two types if indeed the same moneycr is involved Roxburgh Coins of types II and VI are very rare and are lacking of Andrew However both these types were found at Colchester of Michel a rare moneycr whose coins of type III were not represented There is also the hitherto unknown type II coin of Wilarn perhaps the same man as another or the only other Wilam the name occurs also at Lanark in this type and widely thereafter There was no type VIII of Adam of which the only known specimen was found amongst the Brussels iliegibles The coins of Adam are generally poorly struck Perth All known types of each moneyer were represented The two coins by Ion of type III are much fewer than the Brussels hoard would have led one to expect in rela tion to thirty one of Ion Cokin The ty

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 72)

/1974 Numismatics Periodicals

the commonest two II and III being well represented Types IV scarce and VII extremely rare are missing St Andrews Colchester s sixteen of type 111 and one of the rare type IV are in line with Brussels proportions Kingdom with fourteen coins is rather more fully represented in Colchester than in Brussels from which it had appeared to be a rarer mint than Ayr Forfar Inverness and Lanark of all of which the coins are uncommon The slightly greater number of type VI than type III is consistent in the two hoards Seven of the eight type VI coins are die duplicates and all eight are from the same obverse die Ayr Coins of type III are not unduly rare Type IV of this mint is rare but there were at least ten in Brussels and a small representation in Colchester would have been e

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 79)

/1974 Numismatics Periodicals

m iohAN on 101 2 1 LONG VOIDED CROSS ISSUES 1250 ONWARDS Type l Berwick Wales 101 3 wal es eb on 1 Robert 101 4 5 rob on bew ik 2 Type II Aberdeen Alisander 101 6 ali san der ona 1 Andreas 101 7 8 and rea s on abr 2 Ion 101 9 11 io no na be 3 Ayr Simon 101 12 sim on on ar 1 Glasgow Walter 101 14 19 wa lt ero ngl 3 wa lt er on 2 wa lT on gla 1 6 Lanark Wilam 101 13 wi lam on lan 1 Perth Ion Cokin 101 20 3 ion co kin onp 2 ioi ckin on per 1 ion cok in onp 1 4 Roxburgh Michel 101 25 mi ch el onr 1 Wilam 101 24 wil am on roc 1 Type III Aberdeen Alexander 102 1 16 ale xon abi rd 5 ali san der on a 2 ali san don abe 1 AL ISA No ON A 1 AL ISA ND O NAB 4 ALI SAD ONA BE 2 ALI SAD ON AB 1 16

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 87)

/1970 Numismatics Periodicals

70 THE LONG VOIDED CROSS STERLINGS OF Forfar IB figs 116 17 Fres B fig 129 Glasgow B figs 1 18 a b 127 8 Inverness B figs 122a b 123 Kinghorn B fig 108 Lanark B fig 115 Montrose B figs 120 131 Perth B figs 111 14 Renfrew B Roxburgh B figs 107b 121 2 124 6 St Andrews B figs 115b c d 133 a b Stirling B figs 110a b 114a W Hauer ter b fig HOC IV Basically similar to type 111 but a moulded bust with a new elegant crown and lettering of Burns class II Of the six mints of the type only Stirling was known to Bur

The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (pg. 92)

/1970 Numismatics Periodicals

ALEXANDER III ILLUSTRATED BY BURNS 75 B fig Type Mint Moneyer 10 1 D VII Perth Rainald 102 VII Glasgow Walter 103 VIII Dumfries Walter 103a VIII Perth Rainald 104 11 Ion Cokin 104 A II Perth Ion Cokin I04n II Lanark Wilam 105 II Ayr Simon 106 Ilia 107 Ilia Berwick Rob ert I07a Ilia Robert 107 b Ilia Roxburgh And rev 108 Illb Kinghorn Wilam 109 Ilia Aberdeen Alisand er 110 Ilia 110a Ilia Stirling Henri 110b 111a __ 1 10c Ilia 0 Wilanerter 111 mb Perth Ion Cokin 112 Illb 1 12a Illb 113 IIIc 114 Illc 1 14a IIIc Stirling Henri I I4b Hie Berwick Robert 114c IIIc Dun Wila m 115 IIIc Lanark Wil

Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency (pg. 191)

/1968

olding company see Tabic B 9 tRepresents capital stock of State bank The Nadonal banl s capital stock following conversion was less by 2 025 Table B 1 1 National banks reported in voluntary liquidation calendar 1968 Title and location oJ bank Date of liquida tion Total capital aeeotmU of liquidated banks 3 193 526 298 101 1 295 454 747 333 1 646 922 205 716 The National Bank of Lanark 111 14297 absorbed by Exchange State Bank Lanark 111 Silverlake National Bank Los Angeles Calif 15388 absorbed by RepidDlic National Bank of California Jan 2 Feb 29 May 27 Aug 30 Oct 9 Central ational Bank of Jacksonville Fla 14744 absorbed by Marine National Bank of Jacksonville Fla 15653 Pacific Industrial National Bank of South El Monte South El Monte Calif 153

NI Bulletin (pg. 15)

5/1/2016 Numismatics

Mav June 2016 Figure 16 NI Bulletin Vol 51 Nos 5 6 Figure 17 Figure 18 Figure 19 Given the nature of the New Lanark community the Lanark Mills tokens were less likely to be counterfeited than if they had circulated over a wider area Thus the mill issues need not have been strictly bound by the bullion market price Moreover from what we know of the philanthropic nature of both Dale and Owen they would probably have been willing to absorb any small loses occasioned by bullion market fluctuations From one of

NI Bulletin (pg. 18)

5/1/2016 Numismatics

xteen of the 5 amount The strange fact of the Glasgow Bank tokens is that there are no known examples of cancelled marks other than one which was over stamped by the Muirkirk Iron Works as mentioned previously Perhaps the redeemed coins were melted straight away or otherwise added to the bank s reserves of bullion We have touched upon the cotton industry in Scotland when we talked about the Lanark Mills There were many other concerns involved with all aspects of cotton spinning and weaving and one of the most interesting when looked at from the perspective of countermarked dollars is the Catrine Cotton Works Catrine had a variety of values being 6 6 2 5 6 6 5 oval 4 5 round 3 and 4 9 11 but the strange and unique factor with these countermarks is that they are all indi

NI Bulletin (pg. 20)

5/1/2016 Numismatics

y Cotton Works Rothsay lies about forty miles southwest of Glasgow at the head of a bay on the Island of Bute An English engineer James Kenyon of Sheffield moved to Scotland to evade Richard Arkwright s patent on his water frame In 1779 he not only opened his new mill but employed ex Arkwright employees that he had lured away with him In 1785 Kenyon sold the works to David Dale he again of Lanark Mills who expanded the operation before again placing it on the market five years later By 1815 the works were owned by William Kelly and Robert Thom Kelly had been David Dale s manager at Lanark Mills and carried on the labor relations systems he had learned from there The Rothsay Mills tokens are quite varied and unusually this was the only concern that countermarked cut Spanish dollars to

Scrip Talk: August 1975 Issue (pg. 14)

8/1/1975 Numismatics Numismatics Scrip Periodicals

25 110 LECCONY SMOKELESS COAL CO BESOCO W VA 1 03 bowtie cut wm 111 LECCONY SMOKELESS COAL CO BESOCO W VA 5 02 wm 10 02 br 25 01 wm 50 01 br 1 01 wm 5 pcs 20 112 LAMAR COLLIERY CO lAMAR W VA 1 ISC2 and 5 00 ISC1 5 has V cut better check these two 113 LAMAR COLLIERY CO LAMAR W VA 5 10 25 50 all ISC2 mfg solid br 8 wm 50 114 Lanark COALS INC LANARK W VA 1 thru 50 br 8 wm matched 04 40 vf condition 5 pcs 25 5 LANOO COAL CORPORATION DELBARTON W VA 1 5 10 50 1 br 8 wm club cut Oreo 4 41 mfg 5 pcs 25 116 LANDGRAFF GENERAL STORE LANOGRAFF W VA SET 5 thru 1 brass solid unk mfg 5 pcs 15 17 LYTTLE 8 PENNINGTON PENNINGTON SAP VA SET 5 thru 1 00 wm matched Ore

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