Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-717

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from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75367
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This specimen was lot 75367 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca.1790s). PCGS MS-65 Red Brown. Obverse: Ass carrying double panniers, "I WAS AN ASS TO BEAR THE FIRST PAIR" around; Reverse: Britannia seated with liberty cap falling from spear, "ROUSE BRITANNIA!" around. A gorgeous and immaculately preserved, Gem-quality example, with soothing red-brick patina and abundant red mint bloom in the protected areas." Thomas Spence seemed to specialize in political sarcasm, a tendency which got him imprisoned more than once.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-717.

Source:

  • 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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