Worcestershire 1791 half penny token D&H-27
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This specimen was lot 75166 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $528. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Token. Worcestershire. Kidderminster. 1/2 Penny Token, 1791. NGC MS-67 Brown. Obverse: Arms of the See of Worcester; Reverse: Guillotine; Edge: "Skidmore Holborn London"."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: copper, lettered edge.
Catalog reference: D&H-27.
- 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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- Wiltshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-12, Salisbury
- Yorkshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-17, Jonathan Garton & Co.
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