Cambridgeshire 1795 farthing token D&H-36

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Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75285
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This specimen was lot 75285 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Cambridgeshire. Copper 1/4 Penny (Farthing) Token, 1795. George III. PCGS MS-63 Brown. A pleasant Choice token with hints of burnished orange in the protected areas." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting specialty. Farthing tokens, while not rare, are a tiny fraction of the total.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-36.

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. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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