Warwickshire. Boxer (Pugilist) Isaac Perrins, 1750-1801. Penny Trade Token, 1789.
 
“Isaac Perrins was an English bareknuckle prizefighter and 18th-century engineer. A man reputed to possess prodigious strength but a mild manner, he fought and lost one of the most notorious boxing matches of the era, a physically mismatched contest against the English Champion Tom Johnson. Such was the mismatch that Perrins was described as Hercules fighting a boy.”
 
An old brown tone, with wear and surface marks.