Coin
½ Penny Barbados (1792) — Barbados
Barbados • 1792 • KM# Tn9, Pr# 25, Lyall# 84
Overview
Copper ½ Penny token from Barbados featuring a crowned bust and Neptune riding a chariot.
Specifications
- Country
- Barbados
- Year
- 1792
- Composition
- Copper
- Weight
- 6.2 g
- Diameter
- 24 mm
- Thickness
- 1.6 mm
- Mint
- Soho Mint (Birmingham, England)
- Shape
- Round
- References
- KM# Tn9, Pr# 25, Lyall# 84
- Issuer
- Barbados
Design details
Obverse
Crowned bust facing left Script: Latin Lettering: I·SERVE
Reverse
Neptune riding in a horse and chariot Script: Latin Lettering: BARBADOES·HALFPENNY 1792
Collector insights
- Design heritage: John Milton is credited as the designer for the Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens series. Designer attribution helps distinguish this issue from later restrikes or unofficial copies that reuse only the motif.
- Struck at: Soho Mint (Birmingham, England). Confirm the mintmark on your example before comparing prices — same-year issues from different mints often trade at very different levels.
- Low mintage: Only 47,000 pieces reported. This puts the issue into key-date territory for its series; expect steep grade-based price scaling and a higher counterfeit risk — provenance and third-party grading matter.
- Catalogue reference: Listed as
KM# Tn9, Pr# 25, Lyall# 84. Use this reference code when cross-checking auction archives, dealer inventories, and standard printed catalogues.
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