Cornwall 1791 half penny token D&H-2

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75363

This specimen was lot 75363 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Cornwall. County. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1791. PCGS MS-65 Brown. Plain edge. Obverse: Draped head of Druid left; wreath around; Reverse: Coat of arms. From the Richard Margolis Collection." This token was struck at the Soho mint using dies inspired by the North Wales tokens. It was heavier than the average token but not enough to pass for a penny.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 13.14 g, copper, 29 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: D&H-2.

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, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

• Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-252
• Hampshire 1791 half penny token D&H-89, Southampton
• Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-34, Birmingham
• Worcestershire 1791 half penny token D&H-27, Kidderminster
• Yorkshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-17, Jonathan Garton & Co.
• Lancashire 1791 half penny token D&H-140, Rochdale
• Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-160, P. Kempson
• Wiltshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-12
• Cornwall 1794 half penny token D&H-4, Penryn Volunteers
• Coins and currency dated 1791