Well, had I found this item while looking for, say, a cartwheel-series halfpenny* (yeah,
I know that it's 1799, not 1797, but not all collectors do), I would've been downright confused by it. I mean, the listing basically says "colonial Scottish halfpenny 1797" (which is just weird - colonial
and Scottish?) with no mention even that this is a token as opposed to some actual Scottish coinage

No offense to the original lister (in fact I think I actually found the listing through the forum's top bar), but the listing would seriously gain from
at least including the word "token". This is not a (quote) "OLD SCOTTISH COIN 1797 COLONIAL HALFPENNY", this is a token (and apparently not a common one either), and if so it should be listed as such (and as a bonus, it would be findable for actual token collectors, which will certainly drive the ultimate price much higher that it otherwise would've been).
Sorry if I gave an impression that I seriously thought it was just a weird fake

If that's any consolation it was actually so weird that it didn't even feel like a fake, it just felt
weird.
*) Just to check I did a search for "1797 halfpenny" (quotes not included) in
ebay's UK coins category. The results included this listing, two other tokens, two actual 1799 halfpennies paired with 1797 pennies, and a George I halfpenny someone managed to attribute as 1797 (I personally read this as 1720 but it's hard to seriously say in so low a grade). Oh, and
ebay also tried to helpfully send me to "1797 penny"
