Middlesex 1794 half penny token D&H-1026

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Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74848
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This specimen was lot 74848 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Political & Social Series. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. NGC MS-63 Brown. Edge: Plain. Some striking weakness is evident, but this Choice example still offers pleasing lustrous brilliance." Wikipedia comments, "Thomas Hardy (3 March 1752 – 11 October 1832) was a British shoemaker who was an early Radical, and the founder, first Secretary, and Treasurer of the London Corresponding Society." He should not be confused with Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB (1769 –1839), who fought at Trafalgar with Horatio Nelson.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-1026.

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. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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