Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930
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This specimen was lot 46479 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1789. PCGS MS-62 Brown." This token, which we believe honors St. Pauls cathedral in London, lacks a denomination, which may have been to evade the counterfeiting laws. Later, when it became clear that the authorities would not enforce those laws against the copper tokens, then issuers were not so circumspect. Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting speciality.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-930.
- 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, August 2024 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Emilio M. Ortiz Collection, The Richard Margolis Collection and The Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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