Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-729b
This specimen was lot 74831 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. NGC MS-65 Brown. Edge: Plain. Featuring armed citizens and a sailor seizing a landsman, this stunning Gem radiates with great brilliance." Wikipedia comments,
"Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the forced conscription of men into a military or naval force via intimidation and physical coercion, conducted by an organized group (hence "gang"). European navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means. The large size of the British Royal Navy in the Age of Sail meant impressment was most commonly associated with Great Britain and Ireland. It was used by the Royal Navy in wartime, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries as a means of crewing warships....The Royal Navy impressed many merchant sailors, as well as some sailors from other, mostly European, nations."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-729b.
- 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, February 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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