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1/2 Penny Norfolk – Norwich / Dunham and Yallop
| Issuer | Dunham & Yallop, Goldsmiths, Norwich |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1792 - DH#28 - PAYABLE AT THE SHOP OF DUNHAM & YALLOP GOLDSMITHS - 1792 - DH#28a - PAYABLE AT THE SHOP OF DUNHAM & YALLOP - |
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Dunham & Yallop issued this token during the acute small-change shortage of the early 1790s, when the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned copper coinage for over a decade. Provincial tradesmen across Britain filled the gap themselves, and Norwich — a prosperous textile and commerce center — produced several private issues of its own. The Anglesey Mining Company's "Cartwheel" coinage of 1787 had demonstrated that well-struck private copper could circulate with public confidence, which gave goldsmiths like Dunham & Yallop both the precedent and the incentive to follow.
The Conder token series, of which DH#28 is a catalogued example, was effectively killed by the Token Act of 1817, but by then most provincial issues had already collapsed following the Mint's resumed copper output in 1797.