Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-907

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from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75369
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This specimen was lot 75369 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $4,320. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Swainson's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790s). PCGS MS-66 Brown. D&H-907. Obverse: Bust of Isaac Swainson left; Reverse: Draped woman dropping herbs into still. A VERY RARE token issue in general, but especially so in this stunning Gem state with glossy brown surfaces and exceedingly crisp devices. Astute collectors will take notice of this opportunity. From the Richard Margolis Collection." Isaac Swainson (1746-1812) was the inventor and marketer of a quack cure for venereal disease, "Velnos' Vegetable Syrup."

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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