½ Penny North Wales - I Williams

½ Penny (North Wales - I Williams) - obverse½ Penny (North Wales - I Williams) - reverse

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Features

Issuer United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Type Token
Year 1792
Value ½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency Evasion tokens (1751-1797)
Composition Copper
Weight 6.22 g
Diameter 27.2 mm
Thickness 1 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
82333
References Atkins# 417
James Atkins; 1892. The Tradesmen's Tokens of the Eighteenth Century. W.S. Lincoln, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

A bust (maybe of John Wilkinson) in right profile. Lettering around, no border

Script: Latin

Lettering: PAYABLE AT I WILLIAMS ·

Reverse

A female figure sitting facing left - left hand resting on a harp behind, right hand resting on her knee. Lettering around, date in exergue, no border.
NOTE: The last two numbers of the date are lower, and the 2 has a curled-over top

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NORTH WALES
1792

Edge

Plain

Comments

1792 British Evasion Copper. Atkins 417, Cobwright P.0010/N.0160. A picture-perfect style of evasion, the obverse has a right-facing bust that mimics the style of the John Wilkinson Conder tokens, but here with the legend PAYABLE AT I WILLIAMS around. Some have the bust with a little diebreak in front of the mouth so that it appears he is sticking out his tongue – an apt sentiment indeed, since someone trying to redeem this coin at Williams’ shop would have received the same gesture - since even if there was an I. Williams (and that is doubtful), there is no promise to redeem the token for good coin, as was found on many legitimately issued Conder tokens of the era. The reverse has a seated figure with a harp, the legend NORTH WALES around and the date 1792 below, quite crude (the last two digits are weak).

Other catalogues: D&H - . Atkins 416

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1792 

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