Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-1018a

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Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74845
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This specimen was lot 74845 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. Lutwyches "General Convenience". Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-65 Red-Brown. Obverse: Helmeted bust right of Sir Bevois; Reverse: Lion rampant in arms left. An exceedingly charming Token, delivering a handsome richness to the surfaces, and much eye appeal and allure." Wikipedia comments,

"Bevis of Hampton (Old French: Beuve(s) or Bueve or Beavis de Hanton(n)e; Anglo-Norman: Boeve de Haumtone) or Sir Bevois was a legendary English hero and the subject of Anglo-Norman, Dutch, French, English, Venetian, and other medieval metrical chivalric romances that bear his name. The tale also exists in medieval prose, with translations to Romanian, Russian, Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse and Yiddish."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, 29 mm diameter, obliquely milled edge.

Catalog reference: D&H-1018a.

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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