Essex 1794 half penny token D&H-3

Stack's Bowers February 2023 Collector's Choice sale, lot 73470

This specimen was lot 73470 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Essex. Braintree. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: SUCCESS TO TRADE AND COMMERCE, Hope standing left, raising hand and leaning upon anchor; Reverse: BRAINTREE & BOCKING HALFPENCE, facade of a building; Edge: PAYABLE AT W GOLDSMITHS BRAINTREE ESSEX. An impressively well-produced token with fully lustrous fields. The sharp details are interrupted by only occasion hits upon the surfaces which mostly disappear beneath the elegant brown patina."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-3.

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 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the David Sterling Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

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