Somersetshire 1794 half penny token D&H-86
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This specimen was lot 75372 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $384. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Somersetshire. Bridgewater. Gilt Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. PCGS PROOF-62. cf. D&H-86 (in copper). John Holloway, draper. Obverse: Facade of shop; Reverse: Arms of Bridgewater. A delightful Conder Token that easily captures attention due to its gilt proof flashiness. From the Richard Margolis Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-86.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
Link to:
- Somersetshire 1794 farthing token D&H-111, Bath, Lambe & Son's
- Somersetshire 1794 half penny token D&H-34, Bath, Gye's
- Somersetshire 1794 farthing token D&H-115, Bladud founded Bath
- Somersetshire 1794 penny token D&H-8a, M. Lambe & Son, India House
- Somersetshire 1794 half penny token D&H-39, Bath, F. Heath
- Coins and currency dated 1794