Berkshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-1a

Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72183

This specimen was lot 72183 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $900. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Berkshire. Windsor. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-63 Brown Gold Shield. Obverse: Stag reclining right below tree to left; Reverse: WINDSOR / HALFPENNY / TOKEN; crown above, wreath below. Edge: SKIDMORE HOLBORN LONDON. A rather SCARCE type found with a heavily cracked reverse die, this choice piece is tied with just two others as the finest certified by PCGS. Ex: Christie's (12/1985) # Lot 124."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-1a.

Source:

• 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]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.

Link to:

• Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-12, INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
• Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-14b, INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
• Gloucestershire 1795 half penny token D&H-60
• Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-23 Emsworth, Earl Howe and the glorious first of June
• Hampshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-29, Earl Howe
• Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-57 Portsmouth, John Howard
• Hertfordshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-4
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1112 Thos. Spence
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-286, London Corresponding Society
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-292, Coventry Street, filtering stone
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-295
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-301, Eaton's Copper
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-308, Guest's Patent Boots
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-313, T. Hall
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-314, Hall's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-315c
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-389, Moore's Lace Manufactory
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-396b, Newgate Prison
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 447
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-480, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-522a, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-720, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-726, Spence's, BRITISH LIBERTY DISPLAYED
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-729b, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-748, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-790b, Spence's, ODD FELLOWS
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 904
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-977, Princess Caroline of Wales
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-915, London, W. Williams
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-985a, Duke of York
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-1018a Lutwyches "General Convenience"
• Middlesex (1795) half penny token D&H-1038g
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1053 Denton's
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1117 Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1118 Spence's
• Monmouthshire 1795 half penny token D&H-3, Monmouth, Powell's
• Somersetshire 1795 half penny token D&H-40
• Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-116 Bath
• Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-30, Bury, Guest
• Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-33d
• Yorkshire 1795 half penny token D&H-28A, Leeds
• Coins and currency dated 1795