Obv: Hope standing next to anchor, PAYABLE AT BENN & IONN JONES GOSPORT OR SHEERNESS around. Rev: Ship sailing, THE GUARD & GLORY OF GT. BRITAIN around, 1796 below. Edge: Milled.
Very Fine and Choice brown. A hard to find token in high grades, this is how most of them seem to come. Rare.
A genuine trade token struck for Benjamin and Jonathan Jones, brothers in Gosport who were slopsellers.