1/2 Penny Hampshire - Isle of Wight / Wilkins

Issued under the Conder token boom of the early 1790s, when chronic Royal Mint neglect had left Britain without a functioning small-change supply for decades. Merchants, manufacturers, and speculators rushed to fill the void with privately struck copper tokens, and Hampshire was among the most active producing counties. Wilkins was a London die-sinker who supplied token designs commercially — the same engraver furnished dies to multiple issuers across several counties simultaneously.

DH#46 per Dalton and Hamer's exhaustive 1910 catalogue, which remains the standard reference for the series.