- Copper Token (Blunt). 1721
- HC.J.13.X.1
- Copper Token (Blunt). 1721. Such tokens were common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when there was a scarcity of legal currency in small denominations. They were often used as advertising. Parliament prohibited their production (27 July 1817) from 1 January 1818. This example is the size of a half-penny and is crudely engraved. Obverse: Blunt / Operator of / Teeth and Bleeder / Great Windmill / Street near the / Hay Market / London / 1721
- Eighteenth century, mid
Length: Mount 12.5 cm
Width: 11 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Diameter: Token 2.7 cm
