Scarce Slavery of Sunday Baking London Halfpenny 1795

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Scarce London (Middlesex) copper Conder halfpenny token dated 1795. Obverse: A wheatsheaf: “BAKERS HALFPENNY 1795”. Reverse: Text on eight lines, “TO LESSEN THE SLAVERY OF SUNDAY BAKING AND PROVIDE FOR PUBLIC WANTS: AN ACT WAS PASSED. A. D. 1794”. Edge inscription: “PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL”. Listed in Dalton & Hamer as: “SCARCE”. An interesting token, scoring a political point, in nice collectable condition with some original lustre remaining and weak strike to edges as usual for type, see photograph.

D&H Middlesex No: 297c. Diameter 28mm. EF+. £60.00

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