Gloucestershire 22, Badminton (Dalton & Hamer, page 36)

22. O: A beggar receiving alms.  I WAS HUNGRY AND YE GAVE ME MEAT.
    R: TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS DUKE OF BEAUFORT THE FRIEND OF MANKIND & HIS WORTHY
       TENANTS WHO REDUCED THE PRICE OF THEIR WHEAT TO 9s PR. BUSHEL A.D. 1795.
       In ten lines between sprigs of laurel and oak.
    E: BADMINTON TOKEN . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . 

22a. E: Plain.

The Badminton series are not currency tokens, but were struck to perpetuate
the memory of the Duke of Beaufort, and to illustrate incidents connected with
a period of scarcity of corn, and all are rather scarce.

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