1/2 Penny Suffolk - Bungay / Castle

Bungay's halfpenny token was issued during the great provincial token boom of the 1790s, when a chronic government shortage of small regal copper left traders across Britain effectively minting their own change. The Bungay piece is attributed to a local tradesman issue rather than a single identified merchant, making it more civic in character than most Suffolk tokens of the period. Dalton & Hamer's numbering places it firmly within the documented Suffolk series, and Atkins' earlier cataloguing aligns — a rare consistency between the two standard references that occasionally diverge on Suffolk attributions.