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½ Penny - Cork

½ Penny - Cork - obverse½ Penny - Cork - reverse

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Features

Issuer Ireland
Type Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year 1792
Value ½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency Second Irish Pound (1460-1826)
Composition Copper
Weight 5.7 g
Diameter 27 mm
Thickness 1 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
348060
References DH# Cork 3
Richard Dalton, Samuel H. Hamer; 1918. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Davisson's Ltd., London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Woman with Harp

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FOR THE GOOD OF THE PUBLICK
1792

Reverse

WHC Monogram

Script: Latin

Lettering:
PAYABLE AT CORK OR DUBLIN
WHC

Edge

Plain

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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