Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-393
This specimen was lot 75377 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Wilkinson's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1793. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Bust of Wilkinson right; Reverse: Man working at drop hammer. From the Richard Margolis Collection." Wikipedia comments, "John 'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as cannon barrels."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-393.
- 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, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, 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 1792 half penny token D&H-389, Wilkinson's
- Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-50, Birmingham
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