Kent 1794 half penny token D&H-34
This specimen was lot 75288 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Kent. Lamberhurst. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Obverse: Stand of trees, 'MAY HOPS FOR EVER FLOURISH' around; Reverse: Coat of arms, 'SUSSEX HALFPENNY TOKEN' around with divided date. A Choice chocolate-brown example of this lesser-seen Conder token type." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting specialty. Lamberhurst is today a village in Kent with approximately 1,700 people. In the eighteenth century, the county boundary passed thru the town so that part was in Sussex.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-34.
- 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, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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