Object number
A1227
Description
Halpenny token; Spence’s Odd Fellows Political London (Middlesex) copper Conder halfpenny token, undated. Obverse: the conjoined heads of Pitt and Fox: 'ODD FELLOWS QUIS RIDES' with Pitt crying and Fox laughing; reverse: a heart on hand within wreath: 'HONOUR'. Plain edge. This was Thomas Spence (who experimented with phonetic alphabets) using tokens to have another dig at the major politicians of the period
Production period
late 18th century?
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