Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-112a
This specimen was lot 75309 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $125. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Somersetshire - Bath. 1/4 Penny (Farthing) Copper Token, 1795. PCGS MS-63 Brown. D&H-112A. Edge: plain. Obverse: Central cypher with date below, A BATH FARTHING TOKEN; Reverse: Brick of imported tea at center with M. LAMBE / & SON / GROCERS / BATH and a Chinese symbol imprinted thereon, SPICES TEAS SUGARS COFFEES around. A Choice piece that abounds with swirling luster, with a sheen of blue toning pervading the fields." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting specialty. Farthing tokens, while not rare, are a tiny fraction of the total.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-280.
- 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, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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