Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1053

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Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74850
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This specimen was lot 74850 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Denton's Copper Farthing Penny Token, 1795. NGC MS-65 Brown. Edge: Plain. Featuring a pair of blockheads, this interesting Gem served as an advertisement for a fellow coin dealer."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-1053.

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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