Great Britain - 1794

½ Penny Token

(D & H 35 - Suffolk, Ipswich)
Obverse - Great Britain  - 1794 Reverse - Great Britain - 1794
Obverse - A market Cross surmounted by a figure of Justice. The area is marked off by a ring of posts.
Legend: IPSWICH CROSS. with 1794 in the exergue.
Reverse - Inscription: PAYABLE AT CONDER'S DRAPERY WAREHOUSE IPSWICH
Edge:- Diagonally milled.
Diesinker, Wyon; manufacturer, Kempson. One ton struck. Common.
 
Comments. James Conder was a linen draper at Tavern Street, Ipswich; and was an ardent collector of tokens, and the author of the standard work on the subject until it was superseded by that of Atkins in 1892. He also issued three private tokens.
   The old Market Cross stood on the Rotunda in Cornhill, and was built at the beginning of the sixteenth century, but was removed in 1812.
   There are impressions of this token struck on smaller blanks and after the dies had been lapped, as the lettering is much fainter, and the horizontal stroke of the H in IPSWICH in the obverse legend is missing.
Commercial Coins 1787-1804., pp. 175
 
D & H 35 - Conder's Drapery
O: An ancient market cross. IPSWICH CROSS. Ex: 1794.
R: PAYABLE AT CONDER'S DRAPERY WAREHOUSE IPSWICH. In six lines.
E:
A. 33
Milled.
Also struck in silver.