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1/2 Penny Suffolk – Haverhill
| Issuer | John Fincham, Haverhill, Suffolk |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Reference(s) | DH#31 |
| Obverse description | Central device depicts a seated weaver operating a large upright hand loom, rendered in fine detail within an unbordered field. The figure is shown in profile facing left, engaged at the loom's treadle and harness mechanism, illustrating the textile industry of Haverhill. The peripheral legend reads HAVERHILL MANUFACTORY, arching across the upper and lower portions of the coin separated by the central design, with a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | HAVERHILL MANUFACTORY |
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Haverhill's late eighteenth-century token issues emerged from the same acute small-change shortage that plagued provincial England following the government's near-total neglect of regal copper coinage after 1775. Fincham, operating in a market town on the Essex-Suffolk border, commissioned this halfpenny to keep local trade moving when Royal Mint output had effectively ceased to meet demand.
DH#31 is one of several distinct Haverhill pieces catalogued by Dalton and Hamer, distinguishable by die specifics rather than surface description alone.