BARBADOS (WEST INDIES). Copper penny token. 13.16 gm. 30 mm. 1792. Head left wearing a coronet with a plume of three feathers / George III as Neptune seated in a chariot, being pulled left by two hippocampi; BARBADOES • PENNY 1792 around. Pridmore 15. KM TN 10. Spink (Colonial) Tn 10. Extremely Fine; depression across trident on reverse that was in flan before the piece was struck.

Made by John Milton in July 1792. In 1789 Milton became assistant engraver at the Royal Mint. These private issue tokens were made for Sir Philip Gibbs, a planter. Interestingly, this was soon after the first issues of the provincial token coinage series that Dalton and Hamer catalogued in the early 20th century. Zeitgeist....