Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-915
This specimen was lot 2907 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $95. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: AE halfpenny token, 1795, Conder token, William Williams (knife-sharpener & button manufacturer) of London, crowned shield // portcullis surmounted with plumes, a lovely example with some red luster, PCGS graded MS64 BN. John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) was a clergyman and radical reformer. He was one of the three defendants in the 1794 Treason Trials arranged by the government of William Pitt the Younger. All three were brilliantly defended by Thomas Erskine and subsequently acquitted of high treason."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-915 (Middlesex).
- 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.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
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