Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55
This specimen was lot 74898 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $504. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Birmingham. Copper 1/2 Penny Token Mule, 1796. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Obverse: Cherubic boy leaning on screw press, legend around, date in exergue; Reverse: Three men hanging from gallows, legend around, date in exergue. Sharp[l]y struck with the popular 'hanging' motif appearing on the reverse. From the Sydney F. Martin Collection." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting speciality. The ones featuring the gallows receive much attention.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-55.
- 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 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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- 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
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- 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-120, Birmingham, Bissets Museum
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323, Stratford
- Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-280, Coventry, White Friars Gate
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