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Description: | Token, copper, 28mm diameter. London halfpenny. (DH Mddx 353). Issuer James Lackington, 1794, �d. Obverse Bust of James Lackington and 1794. Reverse Figure of Fame: �Halfpenny of J Lackington Allen and Co. Cheapest booksellers in the world�. More than 700,000 Lackington tokens were issued (only valid in Lackington's business), struck by Lutwyche of Birmingham. Notes Lackington published his memoirs in 1791. These revealed him as a self-made man. While a journeyman shoemaker he started selling secondhand books, becoming a fulltime bookseller in 1774. By 1791 his profits were �4,000 a year. When the token was issued he was selling about 100,000 books a year. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | trade token | Temporal: | 1794 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Lutwyche | Identifier: | 1977-381/58 | Go to resource |
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