Promotional Token featuring John Wilkes
- Made:
- 1773
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Token, copper, 25mm diameter. Middlesex token (?), late 18th century (?). (Not in DH; Davis & Waters 658). obverse,
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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.
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- Category:
- Coins, Medals & Tokens
- Object Number:
- 1977-381/94
- Measurements:
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diameter: 25 mm,
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- exchange medium
- credit:
- Newmark, J.
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