Obv: Female seated with harp with 7 strings, INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT around, 1792 below. Rev: A cypher H M Co in center, CAMAC KYAN AND CAMAC around, HALFPENNY below. Edge: PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR AT BALLYMURTAGH.
VF for type.
Issued by Turner Camac, John Howard Kyan, and Turner’s younger brother John. They represented the Hibernian Mine Company. Turner would later move to the States, where he sought a more tolerant religious culture. He lived in Philadelphia with his wife Sarah Masters. This is one of many varieties of Camac tokens, most of them rare.