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Token - Ram & Leopard London, Leeds & Birmingham Halfpenny
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | A woolly ram passant to left, rendered in fine relief with naturalistically detailed fleece, standing upon a ground line composed of a laurel branch. The circular legend reads PAYABLE AT LONDON LEEDS & BIRMINGHAM around the periphery. A small star or pellet appears in the lower field below the ground line. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Provincial copper tokens of this type proliferated during the 1780s and 1790s when chronic Royal Mint neglect left Britain's small change supply so depleted that merchants and manufacturers began commissioning their own. The Ram and Leopard issues connecting London, Leeds, and Birmingham reflect the actual commercial corridors of the textile and metal trades — these tokens circulated between real business partners, not just within a single town.
The Conder token boom ended abruptly with the Copper Coinage Act of 1797 and subsequent legislation that made private token issue illegal by 1817.