Devonshire 1789 half penny D&H-8

Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 36089

This specimen was lot 36089 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Devonshire. Plymouth. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1789. George III. PCGS MS-63 Brown. The only and highest certified example at PCGS."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper or bronze.

Catalog reference: D&H-8.

Source:

• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
• 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.

Link to:

• Hampshire 1789 shilling token D&H-1 John Pinkerton
• Middlesex 1789 penny token D&H-177, St. Paul's
• Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930 St. Pauls
• Wicklow 1789 half penny token D&H-51A, Cronebane
• Great Britain 1789 1/2 guinea
• 1789 guinea
• Cheshire 1790 half penny token D&H-25 Macclesfield
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-722, Spence's, I WAS AN ASS TO BEAR THE FIRST PAIR
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-761, Spence's, ENGLISH SLAVERY
• Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-785 D. Mendoza
• Devonshire 1792 half penny token D&H-2, Exeter
• Devonshire 1792 half penny token D&H-6, Plymouth
• Coins and currency dated 1789