Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Penny Middlesex – Whitfield's / Long Live The King
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Year | 1795 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Draped bust of King George III in profile facing left, occupying the central field. The effigy is rendered in a naturalistic style, with the king depicted in civilian dress with a cravat visible at the truncation. The circular legend reads '* * LONG LIVE THE KING' distributed around the periphery, with small star ornaments used as separators. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Middlesex was the most prolific county for 18th-century trade token production, and 1795 was the peak year of the second conder token wave — driven largely by the Royal Mint's near-total failure to produce regal copper coinage in the preceding decades. Whitfield's token falls squarely in the merchant-advertising tradition, where a halfpenny-sized copper piece served commercial exchange while doubling as a moving advertisement. The "Long Live The King" sentiment was politically pointed in 1795: George III had faced assassination attempts, anti-war riots, and the stone-throwing attack on his coach en route to Parliament that October.