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1/2 Penny Thomas Seymour - South Wales
| Issuer | Thomas Seymour |
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| Year | 1780 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thomas Seymour issued this halfpenny token during the surge of provincial copper coinage that flooded Britain in the 1780s and 1790s, driven by a chronic shortage of regal small change — the Royal Mint had struck virtually no copper since 1775. Merchants, tradesmen, and industrialists across Wales and England filled the gap themselves, issuing privately struck tokens redeemable at their own establishments. Seymour's piece predates the main Conder token boom by several years, placing it among the earlier provincial responses to the shortage. Atkins 442 is the standard reference attribution for this type.