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1/2 Penny Gloucestershire - Badminton
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1796 |
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| Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | THE SALE OF CORN BY WEIGHT PROPOSED 1796 |
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Badminton House in Gloucestershire was the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, and this token was issued during the great copper token boom of the 1790s — a direct consequence of the Royal Mint's near-complete failure to produce adequate small change for an industrializing economy. Private merchants and landowners filled the void. The Beaufort connection gives this piece a distinctly aristocratic provenance unusual among provincial tokens, most of which were commercial in origin.
DH#35 in Dalton and Hamer's reference remains the standard attribution for this type.