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Tin farthings and halfpence, being below the intrinsic value and easily counterfeited, were recalled in 1694 and replaced with coin of English copper. Complaints against the patentees who undertook the recoinage were rejected by a Commons committee in April 1696. Copper coinage was stopped for a year 1696-7 but proposals for further stoppages 1698-9 and 1699-1700 did not pass. On 1 April 1708 the inhabitants of Southwark delivered a petition against a further new coinage, complaining that they were 'loaded with great quantities' of halfpence and farthings.