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1/2 Penny George Rules - North Wales, portrait right
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1756-1782 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORGE· RULES· |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts a crowned Irish harp, the crown rendered with a beaded band, occupying the majority of the reverse field. The harp motif is adapted from the reverse of official regal halfpennies, a deliberate design choice to lend this evasion token superficial similarity to genuine coinage while avoiding direct reproduction. The peripheral legend NORTH WALES with the date divided as 17 75 appears around the harp in Latin script. The overall execution is characteristic of eighteenth-century evasion token manufacture, with a relatively coarse but recognisable rendering of the crowned harp. |
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This is a trade token, not a government issue — "George Rules" was a political slogan circulating among Hanoverian loyalists in the mid-eighteenth century, and such pieces were struck privately to fill the chronic shortage of small copper coinage that the Royal Mint largely neglected between the 1750s and the Coinage Act of 1816. North Wales was particularly dependent on these unofficial pieces, with slate quarries and copper mines paying workers in tokens their employers controlled. The broad date range reflects reissue across multiple decades rather than continuous production.