1/2 Penny George Rules - Bater Sea

This is a trade token, not a regal issue — "George Rules" almost certainly a loyalist sentiment struck during the period of American Revolutionary agitation, when such phrases appeared on British provincial copper as pointed political commentary. Battersea had active copper and enamel trades in the 1770s, and local merchants routinely commissioned halfpenny tokens to address the chronic shortage of small regal copper that plagued everyday commerce throughout the reign of George III. Atkins 152 is a recognized variety within the broader corpus of 18th-century English provincial tokens.