1/2 Penny Sussex - Frant / G. Ring

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.