Warwickshire (1790-94) half penny token D&H-181
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This specimen was lot 75792 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Kempson's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790s). PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Frontal view of the general hospital; light numbering in ink above; Reverse: Shield."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-181.
- 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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- Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-125, Birmingham, Samuel Garbett
- Warwickshire 1790 half penny token D&H-148, Birmingham, P. Kempson, Ashted Chapel
- Warwickshire (1790-94) half penny token D&H-154, Birmingham, P. Kempson, St, Martin's Church
- Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-219, Birmingham, Lutwyche's Dea Pecunia
- Coins and currency dated 1790