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1/2 Penny Suffolk - Ipswich / J. Conder
| Issuer | J. Conder, Ipswich |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Diagonally milled |
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James Conder was himself a draper in Ipswich, but his real obsession was tokens. He became the first systematic cataloguer of 18th-century British provincial tokens, publishing his landmark work in 1798 — meaning this piece was struck while he was actively assembling the very collection that would define the field. Issuing a token bearing your own name while simultaneously writing the definitive reference on such tokens is either audacious or simply practical; Conder was probably both.
The 1794 date places it in the heart of the "token mania" period, when a chronic shortage of regal copper coinage forced tradesmen across Britain to produce their own halfpennies. Conder's Ipswich pieces are documented under DH#35 in Dalton & Hamer.