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1/2 Penny Claudius Romanus - Pax Placid
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1775 |
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| Currency | Evasion tokens (1751-1797) |
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| Obverse lettering | CLAUDIUS ROMANUS |
| Reverse description | A standing female figure, likely representing Pax (Peace), occupies the central field, depicted in classical drapery and rendered in low relief with the summary style typical of evasion token manufacture. The figure appears to hold an attribute consistent with allegorical Peace imagery. The legend PAX PLACID is distributed in the field, a truncated and fictitious Latin inscription used to evade the Statute against counterfeiting regal halfpennies. Heavy green corrosion is present across the reverse field, partially obscuring fine detail. |
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Atkins 47 is one of several regal halfpenny imitations circulating in Britain during the chronic small-change shortage of the 1770s, when the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned copper coinage production. With no official halfpennies being struck after 1754 in meaningful quantities, counterfeit and imitation pieces flooded trade — by some contemporary estimates, the majority of copper in circulation by the mid-1770s was unofficial. The "Pax Placid" designation refers to the reverse type rather than any official series name.
Parliament debated the coinage crisis repeatedly without resolution until Boulton's Soho Mint contracts of 1797.