Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-21a

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Steve Album sale 54, lot 2705

This specimen was lot 2705 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $115. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: AE halfpenny token, 1795, Suffolk. Bungay; hand holding scroll // Justice standing right on plinth, holding sword and scales; all set on laurel branch and palm frond, S PRENTICE S DELF M ABEL on edge, a wonderful mostly red lustrous example! NGC graded MS64 RB." Wikipedia comments, "Bungay is a market town...in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It lies in the Waveney Valley, 5½ miles west of Beccles.... In 2011 it had a population of 5,127."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: D&H-21a.

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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.

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