Parys Mine Company, Anglesey, half penny token 1788 - D&H# 304

Parys Mine Company (Anglesey) copper Conder halfpenny token dated 1788. Obverse: Hooded bust of a Druid to the left, twenty-five acorns in wreath. Reverse: Cypher of “PMCo” (Parys Mine Company), with date, “1788” above: “THE ANGLESEY MINES HALFPENNY”. Edge inscription: PAYABLE IN ANGLESEY LONDON OR LIVERPOOL *X*”. The Parys Mine Company was first to issue tokens, for payment to their workers, and general circulation, ahead of John Wilkinson the Shropshire Ironmaster. This precipitated the development of the whole commercial token series as catalogued by Dalton & Hamer.