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Tin Halfpennies
wybrit
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These things are kinda ugly but interesting nonetheless.
Date on the rim - not shown
Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
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So what are the dates??
The tin has aged quite well on these 2.
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
1685 and 1692 respectively.
Much better than 99.99% of the other surviving examples no doubt. The whole tin halfpenny thing was a disaster for coinage. All to help the Cornish tin mines!
Yes - when government subsidizes something you can usually bet on poor quality product. There's a copper plug in the middle of these pieces, presumably to reduce risk of forgeries. Add some salt water, and you have galvanic corrosion as well as phase-changing Tin Pest. You can see the latter in both of these examples.
Solid strikes on the tin, I like them. Peace Roy
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Can't recall seeing better examples.
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cool! did these issues circulate? what were people's opinion at the time?
Even though small coinage was always in short supply then - the tin coins were quite unpopular once they saw a bit of circulation because of "tin pest" - corrosion was quick to set in. Corrosion, no doubt helped along with the copper plug in the centre of the coin resulted in most of these coins becoming junk rapidly.