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Hi! This is not my find, so I do not have the dimensions or weight of it, but I was told it is "About the size of a large cent." It was found in Northern Maryland.

There seems to be a left facing bust on the obverse and some calligraphic initials or lettering on the reverse. What is it?

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It is one of the Anglesey Druid Parys Mines Conder token halfpennies from the 1780s-1790s. Very cool find the for the US :icon_thumleft:

File:Conder Token 1788 Anglesey Halfpenny DH275 composite.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

This is a composite image of the obverse and reverse of a Conder Token Halfpenny issued by the Parys Mine Company of Anglesey in 1788. The obverse features the well known and widely used image of a Druid. The reverse bears the cypher "PMCo" for Parys Mine Company, the date of 1788, and the legend "THE ANGLESEY MINES HALFPENNY". This token is indexed in Dalton and Hamer as Anglesey 275.


 

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looks like it to me. GREAT ID Bramblefind!!!
 
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The one penny was one of my first old copper finds. Haven't found many, if any, since.
 
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