Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-30
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This specimen was lot 73897 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2023), where it sold for $120. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Suffolk. Bury. Guest's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-65 Brown. Obverse: Auctioneer's arm about to hammer a lot closed; Reverse: Fama standing facing, head left, blowing into trumpet and holding palm frond."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-30.
- 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, November 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancient & World Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
Link to:
- Suffolk (1790-94) half penny token D&H-26, Bury St. Edmunds
- Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-790b, Spence's, ODD FELLOWS
- Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 904, Stinton's
- Monmouthshire 1795 half penny token D&H-3, Monmouth, Powell's
- Somersetshire 1795 half penny token D&H-40
- Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-33d, Hoxne
- Suffolk 1796 half penny token D&H-24b, Bungay
- Coins and currency dated 1795
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