Picard’s Duke of Wellington Hull (Yorkshire) halfpenny token. Obverse: Bust of Wellington, wearing laurel, to left. Reverse: Text in centre and round edge listing major battles and their dates. Diagonally milled edge. These Peninsular War tokens are thought to have been issued by Picard, the owner of the Hull Lead Works, who spent some of his time in London and took to gambling his fortune away, eventually becoming bankrupt in 1827 and dying in reduced circumstances in 1843