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1/2 Penny Middlesex - Slave
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1787-1797 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued during the height of the British abolitionist movement, this Middlesex halfpenny token was produced by private merchants filling a chronic shortage of regal copper coinage — the Royal Mint had struck virtually no halfpennies or farthings for general circulation since the 1770s. The design was explicitly abolitionist in intent, circulating as a piece of everyday commerce that doubled as a political statement at a moment when Wilberforce's campaign was actively lobbying Parliament.
Dalton and Hamer's cataloguing of this piece as DH#1037 places it among dozens of documented die varieties in the Middlesex series, where private issuers frequently recycled or modified dies.