Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-57
This specimen was lot 75158 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2023), where it sold for $100. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Hampshire. Portsmouth. 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. NGC MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Bust of John Howard left; Reverse: Britannia seated; Edge: CURRENT EVERYWHERE. Hazel brown surfaces exhibit a substantial quantity of mint red for the given designation. Uninterrupted satin luster is quite fresh and remarkable to witness on this two-centuries-old survivor. Among the best examples that numismatists can expect to obtain in a reasonable time frame. From the David Sterling Collection." Wikipedia comments,
"John Howard FRS (2 September 1726 – 20 January 1790) was a philanthropist and early English prison reformer."
He appeared on several Conder tokens; the issuers of these tokens often found themselves clapped into prison and so took such reform personally.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-57.
- 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, September 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancient & World Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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