Promotional Token featuring John Wilkes

Promotional Token featuring John Wilkes Promotional Token featuring John Wilkes Token, copper, 25mm diameter

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Promotional Token featuring John Wilkes
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Promotional Token featuring John Wilkes
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Token, copper, 25mm diameter
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Copper token by John Kirk, produced for The Sentimental Magazine in 1773. Features a portrait of John Wilkes on the obverse. Inscribed on the reverse 'John Wilkes Esquire; Member for Middlesex 1773.

One of a set of 13 promotional tokens produced for The Sentimental Magazine, given to subscribers in 1773. The Bath Journal, published Monday, March 29th, 1773, reported that the magazine was to include a "curious MEDAL, struck on fine Metal, about the Size and Weight of a Guinea".

John Wilkes (October 1725 - December 1797) was an outspoken journalist and Radical politician, representing Middlesex in Parliament.

Details

Category:
Coins, Medals & Tokens
Object Number:
1977-381/94
Materials:
copper (metal)
Measurements:
diameter: 25 mm,
type:
token
credit:
Newmark, J.