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Farthing - Buckinghamshire Aylesbury / E. Cope
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1648-1672 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within an inner beaded circle, the merchant's initials 'C' above 'ED' are arranged in monogram fashion at center, with small five-pointed stars separating each letter. The surrounding legend, divided by stars, reads OF ALEISBVRY around the circumference, all enclosed within an outer beaded circle. The layout is characteristic of mid-17th-century English tradesmen's farthing tokens. |
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Aylesbury's seventeenth-century token issues emerged from a practical crisis: Parliament's failure to provide sufficient small denomination coinage left tradespeople across England minting their own copper pieces to make change. E. Cope was among the Aylesbury issuers who stepped into that void, operating under the informal municipal tolerance that characterized the token period before the Crown suppressed private issues entirely in 1672, when Charles II finally introduced a royal farthing copper series to replace them.