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1 Penny
| Issuer | Barbados |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Weight | 12.4 g |
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| Reverse description | Neptune, crowned and robed, seated in a shell-form sea chariot and holding an upright trident in his right hand, drawn across turbulent waves by two sea-horses moving to the left. The chariot is elaborately decorated with scrollwork and a wheel visible at the rear. The circular legend BARBADOES•PENNY arcs across the upper field, while the date 1792 appears in the exergue below a horizontal baseline, all rendered in a fine neoclassical engraving style consistent with late 18th-century British token coinage. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Barbados never had a royal mint, and this piece is a privately issued token rather than a crown coinage — produced in Britain and shipped to the island to relieve a chronic shortage of small change that plagued the Caribbean colonies throughout the late eighteenth century. The British government's reluctance to supply the colonies with official copper meant merchants and planters routinely commissioned their own tokens. Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint in Birmingham handled many such orders, though attribution for this specific issue remains debated among specialists.
The Lyall and Pridmore references place it firmly in the merchant token tradition rather than any official monetary framework.