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1792 John Howard British conder token 1/2p Mint error Grades Select AU

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1792 John Howard British conder token 1/2p Mint error Grades Select AU
1792 John Howard Mint error British conder token 1/2p Grades Select AU. Conder tokens, also known as 18th-century provincial tokens, were a form of privately minted token coinage struck and used during the latter part of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th century in England, Anglesey and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. There was a lack of small denomination coin and goverment lack of effrott to solve the issue, private business owners and merchants took matters into their own hands, and the first tokens of this type were issued in 1787 to pay workers at the Parys Mine Company. By 1795, millions of tokens of a few thousand varying designs had been struck and were in common use throughout Great Britain. This coin show a portairt of John Howard, English philanthropist and reformer in the fields of penology and public health, Edge inscription: "PAYABLE H. HICKMANS WAREHOUSE BIRMINGHAM". Henry Hickman was a wholesale and retail iron dealer with a warehouse in Birmingham.