1/2 Penny Louis the Sixteenth - Music Charms

This is an 18th-century British copper token rather than a regal issue — struck during the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Britain from roughly the 1760s through the 1790s, when the Royal Mint essentially abandoned copper coinage production. Merchants, industrialists, and tradesmen filled the void themselves, commissioning private tokens in enormous variety. The "Music Charms" attribution and the Louis XVI reference place this piece within the broader category of political and satirical tokens that circulated freely alongside more commercial issues during that period.