Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-720

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Stack's Bowers 2025 ANA sale, lot 44715
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This specimen was lot 44715 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Oklahoma City, OK, August 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. UNCIRCULATED Details, Flan Crack. Obverse: Lion and cock left; Reverse: facing ass bearing panniers. Note: Unencapsulated by PCGS due to "Peeling Lamination". From the Sydney F. Martin Collection."

Specification: copper.

Recorded Mintage: unknown.

Catalog reference: D&H-720.

Source:

  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2025 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Richard August Collection and the Richard Margolis Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
  • 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.

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