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1/2 Penny Kent - Appledore / W. Peckham
| Issuer | W. Peckham |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a recumbent lion facing left, resting upon a grassy ground, surrounded by an open wreath of wheat ears and foliage rendered in fine relief, symbolising agricultural plenty. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border, with the circumferential legend PEACE INNOCENCE AND PLENTY · running around the upper and lower periphery. The overall design reflects the neoclassical allegorical style characteristic of late eighteenth-century English provincial token coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1794 - DH# 3 - PAYABLE AT W. PECKHAM`S APPLEDORE - 1794 - DH# 3a - PAYABLE AT W. FRIGGLES GOODHURST - 1794 - DH#3b - PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL. - 1794 - DH#3c - plain edge - |
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William Peckham operated as a tradesman in Appledore, the small Kent port village on the edge of Romney Marsh, during the acute copper coin shortage of the 1790s — a shortage severe enough that wages were routinely paid in tokens, truck, or nothing spendable at all. The Peckham halfpenny was struck as a direct response, privately commissioned to fill the gap left by a Royal Mint that had not produced regal copper in any meaningful quantity since 1775.
DH#3 in Dalton & Hamer's Kent listings distinguishes this piece from the closely related Atkins#2 attribution, though the two reference systems overlap on this type.