Cheshire 1790 half penny token D&H-25

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from the Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71159
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This specimen was lot 71159 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $120. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Cheshire. Maeclesfield. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1790. PCGS MS-64 Brown. A gorgeous example with cobalt blue toning and violate highlights, with a sharp strike and bold details." Macclesfield is a market town in Cheshire, England, population 57,539. The bust is probably not of Thomas Parker (1723-95), 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, but of Charles Roe (1715-81), founder of a copper foundry there.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: DH-25.

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, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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