Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74866

This specimen was lot 74866 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $168. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Stratford. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-62 Brown. Obverse: Two boys playing on a turnstile; Reverse: Inscription in 8 lines honoring William Shakespeare. This pleasing and lightly circulated example delivers much charm and appeal, with a general handsome glossiness throughout."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-323.

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. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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• Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-16, Dundee
• Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4, Swansea Castle
• Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25, Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
• Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79, Portsea
• Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2, Milton's
• Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2, St. Albans
• Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19, Edinburgh, Harrison's
• Middlesex 1796 farthing token D&H-1123a, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299, Denton's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-344, Spence's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751, Thomas Spence
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-838, Spence's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a, Spence’s. John Thelwall
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-1111a Spence's
• Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
• Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
• Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-120, Birmingham, Bissets Museum
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