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1/2 Penny Suffolk - Hoxne / Yeomanry
| Issuer | Hoxne & Hartsmere Suffolk Loyal Yeomanry Cavalry |
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| Year | 1795 |
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| Value | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse lettering | PRO ARIS ET FOCIS (Translation: For God and Country (literally `for our altars and our hearths`)) |
| Reverse description | At centre, a crenellated castle with two towers and a gateway is depicted within an oval Garter-style band bearing the legend LIBERTY · LOYALTY · PROPERTY, the whole surmounted by a royal crown. The date 1795 appears in the exergue below the castle within the oval. The outer legend HOXNE & HARTSMERE SUFFOLK LOYAL YEOMANRY CAVALy curves around the full periphery within a toothed border, with decorative stops separating the text. |
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Issued in 1795 at the height of Britain's provincial token boom, this piece was produced by the Hoxne and Hartsmere Suffolk Loyal Yeomanry Cavalry — one of the volunteer cavalry units raised in response to the twin pressures of war with Revolutionary France and domestic fear of Jacobin unrest. The Yeomanry were as much a political statement as a military one: local gentry bankrolling loyalty in copper and horseflesh.
Dalton & Hamer's cataloguing of this piece as DH#33 places it among a small cluster of Suffolk issues, though surviving examples in any grade are genuinely scarce — Yeomanry tokens rarely achieved wide circulation beyond their issuing locality.