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½ Penny Oak - The Shire
| Issuer | Shire Post Mint |
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| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse description | The central field bears a decorative compass-rose or quartered directional symbol representing the four farthings of The Shire, rendered in stylized relief. A continuous legend in Tengwar script encircles the central device, running between a raised inner boundary and the outer rim. The date '1402' (in the reckoning of the Third Age) appears as part of the reverse inscription. |
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| Mint | Shire Post Mint, Springdale, Arkansas, United States |
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Shire Post Mint operates out of Mountain Home, Arkansas, producing privately minted fantasy coins with no legal tender status in any jurisdiction. The "Oak" series uses a denomination system invented wholesale for the fictional economy of Tolkien's Shire, with no grounding in the monetary structures Tolkien himself described — which were loosely modeled on pre-decimal English coinage.