Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-722

Stack's Bowers October 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75770

This specimen was lot 75770 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $720. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790). PCGS MS-65 Brown. Edge: Plain. Obverse: Three men dancing around a tree, another at left eating from table; Reverse: Ass carrying two pairs of panniers labelled RENTS and TAX'S. From the Richard August Collection."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-722.

Sources:

• 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. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including 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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