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Bowers on collecting: A 1796 token “unsurpassed in beauty”

The 1796 British Settlement in Kentucky token, popularly called the Myddelton token, was struck in England but refers to the United States.
A Planned Settlement in Kentucky
In 1796 in England, Philip Parry Price, either surnamed Myddelton or from Myddelton, planned a real estate promotion whereby British citizens were to purchase tracts of land in Kentucky

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