Halfpenny token (John Howard) - 1795

Side 1: JOHN HOWARD F.R.S. (Fellow Royal Society) PHILANTROPIST

Side 2: RULE BRITANNIA. In ex.: 1795

Dalton & Hamer 57b (Hampshire, Portsmouth)
Mm. 29 - Copper - On the edge: CURRENT EVERY WHERE + + + +
John Howard (1726-1790), born in London, was a philantropist and prison reformer. His reports about the conditions in prisons forced the Parliament to issue the 1774 Goal Act, a law which improved these conditions.