Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-160
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This specimen was lot 75172 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Kempson's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1791. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Edge: Plain. Obverse: Building; Reverse: Shield of arms."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: copper, lettered edge.
Catalog reference: D&H-160.
- 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:
- Warwickshire 1790 half penny token D&H-148, P. Kempson, Ashted Chapel
- Lancashire 1791 half penny token D&H-140
- Cheshire 1791 half penny token D&H-47, Macclesfield
- Cornwall 1791 half penny token D&H-2
- Hampshire 1791 half penny token D&H-89, Southampton
- Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-34, Birmingham
- Wiltshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-12, Salisbury
- Worcestershire 1791 half penny token D&H-27, Kidderminster
- Yorkshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-17, Jonathan Garton & Co.
- Coins and currency dated 1791