Angusshire (1790-94) half penny token D&H-12
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This specimen was lot 76225 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. Angusshire. Dundee. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790s). PCGS MS-65 Brown. Obverse: Civic coat-of-arms of Dundee, with wyverns as supporters; Reverse: Legend in six lines. From the Richard Margolis Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 9.46 g, copper, 28 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: D&H-12.
- Conder, James. An arrangement of Provincial Coins, tokens, and medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, within the last twenty years, from the farthing to the penny size. Ipswich: G. Jermyn, 1798.
- Dalton, Richard, and Samuel H. Hamer. The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century. 1910-1917. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
Links to:
- Lothian (1790) farthing token D&H-105, Edinburgh, James Mitchell
- Lothian 1790 half penny token D&H-26, Edinburgh, Hutchison's
- Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-16, Dundee
- Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-28, Dundee, Montrose bridge
- Coins and currency dated 1790