Cheshire 1791 half penny token D&H-47
This specimen was lot 32497 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Cheshire. Macclesfield. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1791. PCGS AU-50. Obverse: Bust of Macclesfield right; Reverse: Industry seated left, holding crankshaft and with industrial equipment behind her." This specimen was offered again as lot 74823 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $65. 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: D&H-47.
- 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, May 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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