Suffolk 1794 half penny token D&H-19

From CoinVarieties
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75163
SB525-75163r.jpg

This specimen was lot 75163 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Suffolk, Blything. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Edge: GOD SAVE THE KING. Obverse: LOYAL SUFFOLK YEOMANRY, yeoman, holding sword and reins, riding galloping horse left; Reverse: BLYTHING HUNDRED HALFPENNY, castle within Collar of the Garter, crown above." Wikipedia comments, "Blything was a hundred of eastern Suffolk, and with an area of 87,641 acres (354.67 km²) was the largest of Suffolk's 21 hundreds."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: copper, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: D&H-19.

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, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to: