Wicklow 1789 half penny token D&H-18
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This specimen was lot 75707 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRELAND. Wicklow. Cronebane. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1789. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Bust of Saint Patrick right; Reverse: Miners' Arms. From the Richard Margolis Collection." Cronebane was the site of copper mines in county Wicklow in the 1780's. Irish trade tokens are much less plentiful than those of England.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-18.
- 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 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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