© ZacUK
© ZacUK
½ Penny Cambridgeshire - Industry has its sure reward
1793 year| Copper | 8.56 g | 28 mm |
| Issuer | United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies) |
|---|---|
| Type | Token |
| Year | 1793 |
| Value | ½ Penny (1⁄480) |
| Currency | Conder tokens (1787-1797) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 8.56 g |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | 1797 |
| Updated | 2024-10-09 |
| Numista | N#80478 |
|---|---|
| Rarity index | 92% |
Reverse
Stork standing facing right with legend around and date below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
PROMISSORY HALFPENNY
1793
Engraver: Thomas Wyon the Younger
Edge
Diagonally reeded \ \ \
Note: edge varieties exist
Comment
The recurring theme of the industrious hive: Legends help to understand this symbol of the hive: this face work, industriousness and sense of savings, the co-operation of all individuals for common prosperity. Anthropomorphic qualities already put forward for centuries, and which will triumph in the nineteenth century when, for example, almost all the European savings banks adopt the hive and bees as symbols of their business. On an iconographic level, note that the hive shown here is a model taken almost without change by dozens of tokens issuers in very different regions of the UK. There is also the model of a small hive overcoming business figure; and rarer is a beehive surrounded by various flowers and plants.Manufacturer: Peter Kempson
Interesting fact
One interesting fact about the Token ½ Penny (Cambridgeshire - Industry has its sure reward) 1793 from United Kingdom is that it was issued during a time when there was a severe shortage of small denomination coins in circulation, leading to the use of private token coins like this one as a substitute for official currency.
