Middlesex (1795) half penny token D&H-1038g

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Steven Album sale 32, lot 1285
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Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75185
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This specimen was lot 1285 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $329. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: AE ½ penny token, ND [ca. 1795], Political and Social Series, Middlesex, slave in chains kneeling right with AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER around // two hands shaking with + MAY SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION CEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD around, two reverse spots of oxidation, hints of red, edge milled to the left, Choice EF." The second specimen was lot 75185 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $552. The catalog description[2] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Lutwyche's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1787-1797). PCGS AU-53. D&H-1039B." in our opinion, the second specimen was miscatalogued, so we have added it here, where it belongs.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, this specimen 9.09 g.

Catalog reference: D&H-1038g.

Source:

  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
  • 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.
  • [2]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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