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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;simonwpb, post: 591957, member: 18634&quot;]I discovered one of those 1797 Cartwheel two-pennies in Grandma&#039;s box, that sucker is heavy. Unfortunately it is not in good condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the info. Well I learned something new today. I also just read on <a href="http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/halfp.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/halfp.html" rel="nofollow">another site</a></p><p><i>During the period 1787 to 1797, and again between 1811 and 1812, many private trade tokens were manufactured to fill the gap left by the absence of official small change.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>A discussion of these pieces is beyond the scope of this web site, but very worn tokens are so common that they have little value.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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