Gloucestershire 33, Badminton (Dalton & Hamer, page 36)

Denomination: halfpenny, scarcity: Scarce
33. O: A ship.
    R: A plough.
    E: BADMINTON TOKEN . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . 

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.

Keywords

corn imported by government,1796,success the cultivation of waste lands

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