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1/2 Penny Norfolk – Norwich / R. Campin
| Issuer | R. Campin, Haberdasher, Norwich |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Value | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a composite emblematic arrangement of trade-related implements: a bent stocking and a glove in one direction, crossed with a knife and fork in the opposite direction, symbolising the haberdashery trade of the issuer. The circumferential legend reads R . CAMPIN . HABERDASHER. . GOAT . LANE . NORWICH., identifying the merchant and his commercial premises in full. |
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| Reverse description | A draped female figure, emblematic of Britannia or Commerce, is depicted seated in the central field between an anchor to her left and a globe to her right, with a crowned lion couchant at her feet. The design conveys themes of maritime commerce and national prosperity. The circumferential legend HALFPENNY. 1794 appears around the periphery, with the date prominently placed in the lower portion of the reverse. |
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Norwich in the 1790s was thick with tradesmen issuing their own copper tokens to plug the chronic shortage of regal small change — the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned the halfpenny for over a decade by 1794. R. Campin, operating as a haberdasher in the city, was one of dozens of provincial merchants who turned to the Anglesey-pioneered token trade as a practical solution. DH#21 places this piece firmly within the Dalton & Hamer Norfolk sequence, a county that generated an unusually dense concentration of documented tradesman issues relative to its population.