1/2 Penny Oliver Cromwell - South Wales

This is a 17th-century trade token, not a regal issue — Cromwell's government never produced official halfpenny coinage, leaving a vacuum filled by thousands of private copper tokens struck by merchants and tradesmen across England and Wales. The "South Wales" attribution places this piece within a broader Welsh token tradition catalogued by James Atkins in his 1892 reference work on tradesmen's tokens. Atkins 414 is a well-documented type, though surviving examples vary considerably in sharpness owing to the crude dies typical of provincial token production of the Interregnum period.