1 Farthing Dorset - Poole / J. Bayly

Poole's textile trade was still active in the 1790s, though the town's commercial gravity had long since shifted away from the Newfoundland fishing industry that once defined it. Bayly issued this token during the acute copper small-change shortage of the mid-1790s, when the Royal Mint had effectively abandoned farthing production for over a decade, leaving provincial traders to commission their own currency from private die-sinkers — most routed through Birmingam's Soho Mint or smaller provincial workshops.

The Draper attribution places Bayly among the retail merchant issuers rather than the industrialists who dominate Conder token catalogues.