Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-313

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Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75292
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This specimen was lot 75292 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Hall's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS AU-55. Obverse: Kangaroo, armadillo, and rhinoceros; Reverse: Legend and date in six lines. Edge: Plain. Nice brown patina and a charming representation of these three exotic creatures." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting specialty.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-313.

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, 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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