1079964 | GREAT BRITAIN. Cornwall, Penryn. 1794 Bronzed AE Halfpenny Token. PCGS MS63BN (Brown). Edge: Plain. PRO REGE ET POPULO.// LORD DE DUNSTANVILLE/ COLONEL. (in exergue). Arms with unicorn supporters to either side / PENRYN VOLUNTEERS.// FIRST INROLLED/ APRIL 3 1794 (in exergue). Laureate bust, left; military trophies with flags and drum behind. D & H 4.


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The inhabitants of Penryn raised a larger body of volunteers than any other town in Cornwall, for internal defense, which consisted of four companies and more than a dozen commissioned officers including George Chapman George, Esq. and Francis Basset the 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset.