Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-1111a
This specimen was lot 40592 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Oklahoma City, OK, August 2025), where it sold for $1,800. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's Copper Farthing Token, 1796. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Edge: Plain. Obverse: man hanging from gibbet, items of torture below; Reverse: Two rings of text. A VERY SCARCE type from the popular "End of Pain" series of Conder tokens, the legend on this example reading "END OF P (eye) T", perhaps a play on the name "Pitt" (William Pitt the Younger, the Prime Minister of Great Britain). Wonderfully preserved, with glossy luster throughout and even a touch of unoxidized copper surviving in the protected areas of the design. From the Richard August Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-1111a.
- 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, 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.
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- Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-16, Dundee
- Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4, Swansea Castle
- Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25, Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
- Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79, Portsea
- Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2, Milton's
- Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2, St. Albans
- Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19, Edinburgh, Harrison's
- Middlesex 1796 farthing token D&H-1123a, Skidmore's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299, Denton's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-661, Skidmore's, Temple Bar
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751, Thomas Spence
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-838, Spence's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a, Spence’s. John Thelwall
- Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323, Stratford
- Coins and currency dated 1796