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½ Penny (Cheshire - Macclesfield / Charles Roe Copper Works)
Country: United Kingdom
Denomination: 1/2 Penny
(1/480)
Year: 1790-1792
Material: Copper
Weight:
Shape: Round
Diameter: 30 mm
Type: Token
Catalog list: united kingdom
Description:
Obverse
Portrait of Charles Roe, head right, surrounded by the writing and year.
NOTE: many different varieties
D#16-59, 61,63-71,74
(alignment of edge of coat to letters)
NOTE: many contemporary counterfeits and mules exist
Reverse
Statue of woman, seated left, holding the shaft of a windlass in right hand and a cogwheel in the left. Year in the bottom area.
NOTE: many different varieties
(alignment of top bar to letters around, space above head, length of loop of rope, spacing of date letters, alignment to period)
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