1813 PENNY TOKEN GLASGOW

A significant 1813 penny token from Glasgow, Scotland's principal commercial and industrial centre during the Napoleonic era. Issued when official coinage scarcity forced Scottish merchants and manufacturers to create their own circulating tokens, this piece documents Glasgow's emergence as a major trading hub. The city's thriving tobacco trade, shipbuilding, and textile industries made such tokens indispensable to local commerce. A valuable addition for collectors of Scottish numismatics, British token currency, and those studying early 19th-century urban economies. This token illuminates Glasgow's commercial vitality during wartime and the practical solutions devised by Scottish traders to sustain their markets. An authentic artefact of Regency-era Scottish enterprise.