Barbados penny © The Trustees of theBri0sh MuseumIn 1788 the planter Sir Philip Gibbes privatelycommissioned this copper token for smalltransacAons on Barbados. The coins werestruck in the UK and shipped to theCaribbean, their imagery emphasising BlackAfricans’ subjecAon to white planters, andBarbados’s subjecAon to the Crown.John Gregory Hancock Sr. (1775–1815),BriMsh, 1792Copper alloyBequeathed by Thomas Bryan ClarkeThornhill
?>