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1/2 Penny Hampshire - Emsworth / J. Stride
| Issuer | J. Stride, Emsworth |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | RULE BRITANNIA. 1794 |
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Emsworth, a small port on the Hampshire coast, was producing oysters and corn in volume by the 1790s, but small change from the Royal Mint was chronically scarce. J. Stride — almost certainly a local tradesman — issued this halfpenny token under the wave of private copper coinage that flooded provincial England between roughly 1787 and 1797, filling a gap the government had left open for decades by neglecting copper production entirely.
The Dalton-Hamer listing at DH#15 places this among a small cluster of Emsworth issues, none of which circulated far beyond the immediate locality.