Bedfordshire 1794 half penny token D&H-3c

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Steve Album sale 55, lot 2905

This specimen was lot 2905 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: AE halfpenny token, 1794, Leighton Buzzard, lace manufactory, woman in fine dress seated slightly left under a tree // sheep, lustrous orange patina, PCGS graded MS64 BN." Leighton Buzzard is a market town is the south part of Bedfordshire. This is the first token we have posted from this county.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-3c.

Sources:

  • 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.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.

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