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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3449883, member: 66&quot;]A little more information on the Lancashire piece, it was made for Thomas Clarke.&nbsp; No one is sure exactly what his business was, but he must have needed a lot of coinage.&nbsp; There were 17 varieties of the 1791 half pennies produced with a mintage of 1,000,000 pieces.&nbsp; Three varieties are very rare (63, 74, and 75) so most of the varieties would have an average mintage about the same as yours, somewhere around 75,000 coins.&nbsp; He also had 5 varieties produced with the same design in 1792.&nbsp; These coins must have circulated very well in Liverpool because they attracted heavy counterfeiting with fakes being made dated 1791, 92, 93, and&nbsp; 94.&nbsp; Then William Lutyche of Birmingham got ahold of the dies and produced 15 more muled varieties for sale to collectors.&nbsp; Over all this series has 23 genuine varieties, 26 fake varieties, and 15 muled varieties.&nbsp; One interesting fake is a 1791 Lancashire 79 that comes with at least 12 different edge varieties. (I have at least three of them.&nbsp; I have two of the Lanc 64&#039;s, an AU coin, and one that was altered to try and pass it as the very rare Lanc 63.)</p><p><br /></p><p>That is one of the nice things about the Conder token series.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t insist on uncirculated pieces you can build a large collection are a fairly small cost.&nbsp; Coins like you have can often be less than $20 apiece (What I was paying for MS pieces back in 1997.)&nbsp; XF-AU often for under $50.&nbsp; not bad for decent coppers that are almost 230 years old[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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