Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-397

Stack's Bowers 2026 ANA sale, lot 41454

This specimen was lot 41454 in Stack's Bowers Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction (Pittsburgh, August 2026), where it sold for $3,172. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Newgate. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. NGC MS-65 Brown. Plain edge. An intriguing 'hangman' type, this specimen features three lifeless bodies hanging from the gallows. A haunting Gem and a spooky design that may induce more than a few numismatic nightmares." The reverse was also used on D&H-396b. Newgate Prison, notorious for its terrible conditions, was closed in 1902 and demolished the next year.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, 10.6 g, 27.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: D&H-397.

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, Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2026.

Link to:

• Middlesex (1795) penny token D&H-236, AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-286, Corresponding Society
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• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-295, Davidson
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-301, Eaton's Copper
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-308, Guest's Patent Boots
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-313, T. Hall
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-314, Hall's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-315c, Jeffery Dunstan
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-389, Moore's Lace Manufactory
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-396b, Newgate Prison
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 447, Pidcock's Exhibition
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-480, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-522a Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-726, Spence's, BRITISH LIBERTY DISPLAYED
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-729b, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-748, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-790b, Spence's, ODD FELLOWS
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-851, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-977, Princess Caroline of Wales
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-985a, Duke of York
• Coins and currency dated 1795