Middlesex 1796 farthing token D&H-1123a
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This specimen was lot 75786 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Skidmore's Copper Farthing Token, 1796. PCGS MS-62 Brown. Obverse: Three men hanging on gallows, 'THE THREE THOMAS'S' around; Reverse: 'MAY THE 3 KNAVES OF JACOBIN CLUBS NEVER GET A TRICK' in five lines of text. From the Richard August Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-1123a.
- 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, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-1111a Spence's
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