Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4
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This specimen was lot 71393 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, June 2022), where it sold for $600. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Glamorganshire. Swansea. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown. Obverse: View of Swansea Castle; Reverse: Key; Edge: "PAYABLE ON DEMAND". Demonstrating robust red color, this token provides phenomenal strike quality, and an interesting design. A very beautiful example of a trade token."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-4.
- 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, The June 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
Links to:
- Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-16, Dundee
- Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25, Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
- Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79, Portsea
- Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2
- Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2, St. Albans
- Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19, Edinburgh, Harrison's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299, Denton's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-344, Spence's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751, Thomas Spence
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a, Spence’s. John Thelwall
- Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323, Stratford
- Coins and currency dated 1796