1/2 Penny Dublin - Talbort Fyan

This is a merchant token, not a government issue — Ireland had no functioning copper coinage of its own in the 1790s, and the Royal Mint had largely abandoned the smaller denominations. The vacuum was filled by private traders and partnerships who commissioned tokens from Birmingham diesinkers, primarily Boulton's Soho Mint and its competitors. Talbort Fyan were Dublin merchants operating in that window of official neglect, issuing copper purely out of practical necessity. DH#308 places it firmly within Dalton and Hamer's cataloguing of the provincial token series.