Lincolnshire 1794 half penny token D&H-4

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Goldberg sale 87, lot 3158
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This specimen was lot 3158 in Goldberg sale 87 (Los Angeles, September 2015), where it sold for $105.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "Great Britain-Lincolnshire. Conder Token Halfpenny, 1794. Spalding. Edge: PAYABLE AT T. JENNINGS'S SPALDING & HOLBEACH -X. Uncirculated with full original mint red. Very rare in this grade. Uncirculated. Thomas Jennings was an ironmonger and stationer with businesses in both towns." This is one of the earlier Conder tokens, whose issue peaked a few years later.

Specification: copper.

Recorded Mintage: unknown.

Catalog reference: D&H-4.

Source:

  • [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.

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