1 Farthing Perth - Monks Tower

The "Monks Tower" farthings of Perth belong to the broad wave of British provincial tokens issued during the 1790s, when a chronic shortage of regal copper coinage forced merchants and municipalities across Scotland and England to commission their own pieces from private minters. Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint in Birmingham supplied many such tokens, though attribution for the Perth issues specifically runs through the Dalton-Hamer reference as DH#11. Batty's independent cataloguing at 1371 confirms the type without resolving every die-link question the series still carries.