Lancashire 1791 half penny token D&H-140
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This specimen was lot 3157 in Goldberg sale 87 (Los Angeles, September 2015), where it sold for $152.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "Great Britain-Lancashire. Conder Halfpenny Token, 1791. Rochdale. Edge: PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF JOHN KERSHAW .X. Uncirculated with much mint red. Obverse, sheep. Reverse man at loom. Uncirculated." This is one of the earlier Conder tokens, whose issue peaked a few years later.
Specification: copper.
Recorded Mintage: unknown.
Catalog reference: D&H-140.
- [1]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, Aleeza Brown, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 84: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2014.
- 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.
Links to:
- Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-34, Birmingham
- Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-160, P. Kempson
- Wiltshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-12, Salisbury
- Worcestershire 1791 half penny token D&H-27, Kidderminster
- Yorkshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-17, Jonathan Garton & Co.
- Lancashire 1792 half penny token D&H-149
- North Wales 1793 half penny token D&H-72
- Coins and currency dated 1791