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1/2 Penny - Holloway, Professor London England
| Issuer | Professor Thomas Holloway (London, England) |
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| Year | 1857-1858 |
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| Value | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thomas Holloway built one of the most aggressive advertising operations in Victorian Britain, spending an estimated £50,000 annually on press promotions for his pills and ointments by the mid-1850s. These copper pieces were tradesman's tokens issued during the brief window before the Royal Mint reasserted control over unofficial copper coinage — the Coinage Act of 1870 effectively ended private token production of this kind. Holloway later channelled his advertising fortune into philanthropy, founding both the Royal Holloway College and the Holloway Sanatorium in the 1870s and 1880s.