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1/2 Penny Monmouthshire - Abergavenny / J. Powell
| Issuer | J. Powell, Wine & Brandy Merchant, Abergavenny |
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| Year | 1795 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Powell's token was issued during the acute small-change famine of the 1790s, when the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned copper coinage for decades and provincial trade ground along on a chaotic mixture of worn regal coppers and privately struck tokens. Abergavenny, a market town serving the agricultural communities of the Monmouthshire uplands, had particular need of reliable small change on market days. Powell, operating as a wine and spirits merchant, would have required halfpennies constantly for retail transactions.
Struck almost certainly by Westley & Co. or one of the Birmingham trade minters supplying the Welsh token market in this period, DH#1 is the sole variety recorded for this issuer.