Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79
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This specimen was lot 32498 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $145. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Hampshire. Portsea. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. NGC AU-58 Brown. Obverse: St. George on horseback slaying dragon; Reverse: Ship above fish. Edge: PAYABLE AT S. SALMON S. COURTNEY & E. FROST PORTSEA. A charming chocolate-brown piece with glossy luster in the fields." Portsea is the island on which the city of Portsmouth is sited.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-79.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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