Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-480

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Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75181
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This specimen was lot 75181 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Skidmore's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Edge: Oblique milling. Obverse: Two men hammering metal on anvil, forge at left; Reverse: Register stove."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-480.

Sources:

  • 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, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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