Yorkshire 1795 half penny token D&H-28A
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This specimen was lot 32510 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $384. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Yorkshire. Leeds. Birchall's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: The Golden Fleece; Reverse: Shield within wreath; above, lion rampant and tree. Deep violet-brown surfaces, with some hints of red around the devices."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-28A.
- 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 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
Link to:
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- Berkshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-1a, Windsor
- Monmouthshire 1795 half penny token D&H-3, Monmouth, Powell's
- Somersetshire 1795 half penny token D&H-40
- Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-116 Bath
- Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-30, Bury, Guest
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