1/2 Penny Middlesex - Hendon / B Price

Hendon in the 1790s was a small market village on the road north from London, and B. Price issued this halfpenny token during the great provincial token boom that followed the near-complete collapse of official regal copper coinage in circulation. The Royal Mint had struck almost no copper since 1775, leaving merchants across England to commission their own pieces simply to make change. Price's token, catalogued by Dalton and Hamer as DH#324, is one of the scarcer Middlesex village issues — most surviving Middlesex tokens come from London tradesmen with far larger customer bases.