Lancashire 1793 half penny token D&H-107b
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This specimen was lot 1678 in Jean Elsen sale 163 (Brussels, November 2025), where it sold for €170 (about US$196 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Token, Lancashire, Liverpool, Cu halfpenny, 1793. D/ Navire voguant à d. R/ DEUS NOBIS HÆC OTIA FECIT Écu dans une couronne de roseaux. Tranche cordonnée. Brisure de coin au droit, habituelle pour ce type. (Great Britain, Lancashire, Liverpool, copper half penny token of 1793. Obverse: ship sailing right; reverse: shield with a crown of roses, reeded edge. Die break on obverse, as is normal for this type, Uncirculated.)"
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D.& H. 107b.
- 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]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 163, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2025.
Link to:
- Lancashire 1792 1/2 penny token D&H-29, John of Gaunt
- Lancashire 1792 half penny token D&H-127A, Manchester, John Fielding
- Lancashire 1792 half penny token D&H-149, Rochdale
- Essex 1793 half penny token D&H-11B, Dunmow
- Middlesex 1793 half penny token D&H-833a Spence's
- Middlesex 1793 half penny token D&H-834 Spence's
- North Wales 1793 farthing token D&H-15a
- North Wales 1793 half penny token D&H-72
- Staffordshire 1793 half penny token D&H-13A, Leek
- Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-50 Birmingham
- Coins and currency dated 1793