Suffolk (1790-94) half penny token D&H-26

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Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75790
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This specimen was lot 75790 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Suffolk. Bury. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790's). NGC MS-63 Red Brown. Obverse: Legend surrounding the Shield of arms of Bury St. Edmund; Reverse: Initials above a crown, between palm and laurel branches with legend around."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-26.

Sources:

  • 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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