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| 表面の説明 | 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. |
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| 裏面の文字体系 | Latin |
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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.