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1/2 Penny Hampshire - Portsmouth / John Howard
| Uitgever | United Kingdom |
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| Jaar | 1795 |
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| Waarde | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Draped bust of John Howard, the noted prison reformer and philanthropist, facing left, with queue-tied hair, rendered in fine relief within the field. The circumferential legend reads IOHN HOWARD. F.R.S. PHILANTHROPIST., divided by a central dot at the base, with a toothed (dentilated) border encircling the entire design. The portrait is depicted in the neoclassical style characteristic of late 18th-century English token engraving. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | IOHN HOWARD. F.R.S. PHILANTHROPIST. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
John Howard, the prison reformer whose image appears on this token, died in January 1790 in Kherson, Russia, where he had traveled to investigate plague hospitals — a cause that ultimately killed him. His death five years before this token was struck had already elevated him to near-sainthood in British reformist circles, making his likeness commercially attractive to token issuers capitalizing on public sentiment.
Portsmouth was among the more prolific Hampshire token issuers of the 1790s conder series, a period when chronic small-change shortages forced merchants and municipalities to commission private copper tokens. DH#57 is well-documented within Dalton and Hamer's Hampshire listings.