INTRODUCTION. ANGLESEY
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H E tokens of the P a r y s Mines Company m a y well be considered the " p r e m i e r tokens of the E i g h t e e n t h C e n t u r y — t h e first, chronologically; a long way the first by the quantity issued : Charles Pye states t h a t at least '250 tons of pennies, and about 50 tons of halfpence.
Issued as they were, by a copper m i n i n g company, which had its existence as a n outcome of the natural talent of a silk twist m a n u f a c t u r e r , Charles Roe, of Macclesfield, and his partners in the copper industry, viz., Robert Hodson, Brian Hodson, Roland Atkinson, J o h n Walker, Joseph Stockdale, and Cookson Atkinson; the tokens have also a sentimental interest, by reason of their association with the P a r y s M i n e ; the story of which, and of the discovery of the vein of copper as n a r r a t e d in the Universal Directory of 1790, is as follows:— ( iii )