Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-291

Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75173

This specimen was lot 75173 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Kempson's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1797. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Edge: COVENTRY TOKEN. Obverse: Drapers Hall; Reverse: Arms of Coventry."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: copper, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: D&H-291.

Sources:

• 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.

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• Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
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• Angusshire 1797 half penny token D&H-21, Dundee
• Ayrshire 1797 half penny D&H-3, Wm. Fullarton
• Buckinghamshire (1797) half penny token D&H-16, Aylesbury
• Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-81, London & Westminster Series, Bank of England
• Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-127, Skidmore's, Kew Palace
• Middlesex 1797 quarter penny token D&H-1150
• Gloucestershire 1797 half penny token D&H-62, Gloucester and Berkeley Canal
• Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61, Portsmouth
• Kent 1797 half penny token D&H-41, M. Snow
• Somersetshire 1797 half penny token D&H-114, Bath. Lambe & Son
• Perthshire 1797 half penny token D&H-1, Perth
• Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-280, Coventry, White Friars Gate
• Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-297a, Coventry, Free School
• Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-7
• Warwickshire 1799 penny token D&H-27a, Birmingham, Thomas Welch
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