Copper Token (Blunt)
HC.J.13.X.2
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
