½ Penny (Cheshire - Macclesfield / Charles Roe Copper Works) Coin

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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