1794 AD., England, Suffolk, Haverhill manufactory, cloth factory of John Fincham, Halfpenny Token, D&H 31.

England, Suffolk, Haverhill manufactory, cloth factory of John Fincham, diesinker: Wyon, manufacturer: Kempson, 1794 AD.,
Halfpenny Token (29-29,5 mm / 8,76 g), copper, coin alignment ↑↓ (180°), engrailed edge with incuse legend,
Obv.: HAVERHILL MANUFACTORY , a weaver at work in a loom.
Rev.: PRO BONO PUBLICO / 1794 , cypher JF in script capitals within a dotted oval surmounted by a crest: a wolf's head erased, holding in its mouth a branch of laurel vert, fructed gules.
Edge: - PAYABLE AT IOHN FINCHAMS SUFFOLK with the rest engrailed.
D&H 31 . common

Year / Mintage
1794 / ?

The cypher and crest are those of John Fincham, who appears to have owned a cloth factory in Haverhill, a town famous in the eighteenth century for its manufacture of checks, cottons, fustians, and coarse linens or "ducks". Haverhill is partly in the hundred of Risbridge in Suffolk, and partly in that of Hinckford in Essex, the boundary line crossing the south end of the main street.