Muled Generic Halfpenny

Faith, Hope and Charity are usually represented by a cross, anchor and heart (as on this good luck token).

It may be the fact that, on Lucky Cuss's token, she is leaning on an anchor that has led to her being called "Hope".

Point taken, and that could well be the correct interpretation. Maybe I'm overthinking this insofar as the oceanic goddess thing goes. But it might also still be a general representation of British marine prowess. If James Conder, as a contemporary of the culture of the day, himself in cataloging this took her to symbolize "Hope" though, that'd be more or less definitive. But I haven't yet been able to look that entry up.

Below is a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of "Hope" dating from around 1810, in which the depiction is the common classsical one of a woman holding out a flower. So that imagery was not yet dead, but as of this morning I've discovered that the anchor iconology also stretches back to ancient times.