Suffolk 1793 half penny token D&H-39

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75374

This specimen was lot 75374 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $85. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Suffolk. Sudbury. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1793. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Coat-of-arms; Reverse: Legend and date in three lines."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-39.

Source:

• 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:

• Suffolk 1794 penny token D&H-4, Bury, Cornwallis
• Suffolk (1794) half penny token D&H-29, Bury, Rackham's & Leatherdale's
• Suffolk 1794 half penny token D&H-31, Haverhill
• Coins and currency dated 1793