Kent 1797 half penny token D&H-41

Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75169

This specimen was lot 75169 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $840. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Kent. Stone. Snow's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1797. NGC MS-65 Brown. Obverse: Cypher; Reverse: Thistle between two sprigs. Edge: Coventry Token."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: copper, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: D&H-41.

Sources:

• 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 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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