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Farthing - Kent Sturry / T. Johnson
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 1650 |
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| Reference(s) | B-W#542 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1650 |
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Sturry is a small village in Kent, and Johnson's farthing token is one of hundreds of copper tradesmen's pieces struck in England during the 1650s to fill a vacuum left by the Crown's longstanding refusal to mint low-denomination coinage. Parliament never resolved the small change problem, so shopkeepers, innkeepers, and merchants across the country took matters into their own hands. By 1672, when Charles II finally issued a royal copper farthing, private tokens like this one were formally suppressed.