Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-286
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This specimen was lot 74895 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Corresponding Society Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Beautifully engraved with rich, glossy surfaces." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting speciality. The Parliamentary reform advocated on the reverse would not happen until the 1830's. Many edge varieties exist.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, 29 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: D&H-286.
- 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, September 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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