Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-308
This specimen was lot 75291 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Guest's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Obverse: Crowned coat-of-arms with lion and unicorn supporters; Reverse: Shoe, boot, and slipper. An attractive example with glints of coppery red luster." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting specialty. Numista comments, "Guest was a boot and shoe maker and wholesale manufacturer of ladies’ shoes, who had a business at No. 9 Surrey Street, now Blackfriars Road, on the Surrey side of the Thames. It appears that he subsequently became a chemist [pharmacist] and invented a preparation styled the 'Guestonian Medicine', which he sold from the same address."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, 9.03 g, 28.91 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: D&H-308.
- 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, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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