Thomas Mynd, Mail Coach Halfpenny in support of John Palmer (D&H Middlesex 363)

Thomas Mynd, Mail Coach Halfpenny in support of John Palmer  (D&H Middlesex 363) Obv: A mail coach and team. Around the perimeter MAIL COACH HALFPENNY PAYABLE IN LONDON. Ex: TO TRADE EXPEDITION & TO PROPERTY PROTECTION Small letters in legend, no period after PROPERTY. The Y of HALFPENNY some distance from the horses head; the foot of the P of PROTECTION close to the top of the A of PAYABLERev: An inscription on seven lines between branches TO J. PALMER. ESQ. THIS IS INSCRIBED AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR BENEFITS RECED. FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MAIL COACHES. A cypher J F below. The M of PALMER above the SC of INSCRIBED Edge: Plain, squared. (Conder p.92, 183; Pye p.31, 8; Virt p.72; Atkins p. 100, 258; D&H Middlesex 363)

A bit of encrustation on the U of GRATITUDE, otherwise choice, lustrous uncirculated with some faded color remaining.

John Palmer, (1742-1818) comptroller general of the Post Office (dismissed in 1793). He introduced the first mail coaches in England in 1784 with routes from London to Bath and Bristol.