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1/2 Penny Lancashire - Rochdale / J. Kershaw
| Issuer | J. Kershaw, Rochdale |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
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| Obverse lettering | ROCHDALE HALFPENNY· 1792 |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Rochdale's textile trade was already generating significant commercial pressure on the national copper coinage by the early 1790s, and local merchants like Kershaw stepped in to fill the void left by a Royal Mint that had struck no regal copper since 1775. The Conder token boom that followed was as much a practical response to small-change famine as it was a vehicle for local advertisement and civic pride.
DH#143-147 spans several die varieties within the Kershaw issues, a range broad enough that attribution to a specific variety requires careful examination of edge treatment and minor device differences rather than the face design alone.