Catalog: DH# 468


Features
Issuer United Kingdom
Type Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Years 1787-1795
Value ½ Penny (1⁄480)
Currency Pound sterling (1158-1970)
Composition Copper
Diameter 27 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 15 October 1831
Number N#54103Help
References DH# 468, Atkins# 309
Obverse
Bewigged bust of John Wilkinson right, legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IOHN WILKINSON IRON MASTER

Reverse
Crowned harp with legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: * NORTH * * WALES *

Edge
Plain

Comments
A curious piece with a crowned harp, often used as an Irish reference, this has North Wales on the reverse but is classified in Dalton & Hamer amongst the Wilkinson halfpennies of Warwickshire

Material: Copper

Weight: 5.98 g

Diameter: 27.00 mm

Obverse: bust of John Wilkinson right, legend; IOHN WILKINSON IRON MASTER
Reverse: Crowned Harp , legend; NORTH WALES

Rare half penny token