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Halfpenny Yorkshire-York
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1796 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Allegorical seated female figure representing the city of York, crowned with a civic crown, holding an upright sword in her right hand and a shield bearing the arms of York in her left; the design is enclosed within a decorative wreath border. The field is plain and the overall style is consistent with late 18th-century provincial token engraving. |
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| Reverse description | Central device composed of a liberty cap on a pole, a sword, a pair of scales, and a laurel branch, all bound together with a ribbon, symbolising the civic virtues of liberty, justice, and peace. The legend encircles the design in a clean, well-spaced arrangement typical of the Conder token series. |
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Issued under the wave of provincial copper tokens that flooded Britain in the 1790s when Royal Mint production of regal halfpennies failed catastrophically to meet commercial demand. York's civic and merchant interests filled the vacuum themselves. DH#70 is attributed to a specific York issuer within Dalton and Hamer's classification of the series, which runs to dozens of distinct Yorkshire varieties — the county was among the most prolific token-producing regions in England during this decade.