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1/2 Penny Claudius Romanus - North Wales
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1775 |
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| Weight | 6.14 g |
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| Obverse lettering | CLAUDIUS ROMANUS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This is a trade token, not a government issue — the "Claudius Romanus" designation refers to a private issuer operating in North Wales, part of the explosion of merchant and county copper tokens that flooded Britain from the 1780s onward as the Royal Mint catastrophically failed to supply adequate small change. Regal halfpennies had been so heavily counterfeited by mid-century that genuine copper virtually disappeared from retail trade, forcing tradesmen to strike their own.
A 1775 date places this piece slightly ahead of the main token wave, which peaked in the 1790s Conder token boom.