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1/2 Penny Warwickshire - Wilkinson / Camac Kyan and Camac
| Issuer | Camac, Kyan and Camac |
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| Year | 1787-1795 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Draped and wigged bust of John Wilkinson, the celebrated ironmaster, facing right, occupying the central field. The effigy is rendered in the neoclassical portrait style characteristic of late 18th-century token coinage. A circular legend surrounds the bust, reading IOHN WILKINSON IRON MASTER, with the inscription running continuously along the inner border of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Camac, Kyan and Camac were Dublin-based iron merchants who issued this token during the wave of private copper coinage that flooded Britain and Ireland in the late 1780s, filling a void left by the Royal Mint's near-total neglect of small denomination production. The Wilkinson connection places this among the Soho Mint-adjacent issues circulating through industrial commerce. Irish merchant tokens of this period are substantially harder to locate than their English counterparts, as Dublin's commercial token output was comparatively limited.