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1/2 Penny Sussex - Frant / G. Ring
| Issuer | G. Ring, Frant, Sussex |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
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| Obverse description | Central interlaced monogram cypher 'GR' rendered in ornate floral script capitals, surmounted by a recumbent lamb passant. A circular legend encircles the central device, with the date 1794 positioned in the lower field beneath the monogram. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Frant is a village in the High Weald, and by the 1790s its local economy was sufficiently active to warrant a tradesman's token — a direct consequence of the Royal Mint's near-total failure to produce small copper coinage for decades. Ring's halfpenny belongs to the great provincial token flood of 1787–1797, driven not by entrepreneurialism but by desperation: without regal small change, wages couldn't be paid and market transactions seized up entirely.
Dalton & Hamer's listing at DH#23 places this among the scarcer Sussex issues by die variety count.