Middlesex 1794 half penny token D&H-351
This specimen was lot 75175 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Lackington's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. PCGS MS-63 Brown. D&H-351. Edge: Oblique milling. Obverse: Bust facing slightly left; Reverse: Herald standing facing, head left, blowing in trumpet and holding wreath." Wikipedia comments, "James Lackington (1746-1815) was a bookseller who is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade. He is best known for refusing credit at his London bookshop which allowed him to reduce the price of books throughout his store. He built the largest bookstore in the United Kingdom, with an inventory of over 500,000 volumes."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: copper, lettered edge.
Catalog reference: D&H-477.
- 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, 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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