View source for Cheshire 1790 half penny token D&H-25

[[Image:SB1021-71159o.jpg|300px|thumb|from the Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71159]]
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This specimen was lot 71159 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $120. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Great Britain|GREAT BRITAIN]]. Cheshire. Maeclesfield. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1790. PCGS MS-64 Brown. A gorgeous example with cobalt blue toning and violate highlights, with a sharp strike and bold details." Macclesfield is a market town in Cheshire, England, population 57,539. The bust is probably not of Thomas Parker (1723-95), 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, but of Charles Roe (1715-81), founder of a copper foundry there.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' DH-25. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Conder, James. ''An arrangement of Provincial Coins, [[Conder tokens|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 [[Conder tokens|Token Coinage]] of the 18th Century''. 1910-1917. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

''Link to:''
* [[Devonshire 1789 half penny D&H-8]] king's visit to Plymouth
* [[Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-380]] druid
* [[Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-785]] D. Mendoza
* [[Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-825]] Spence's
* [[Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-984]], Duke of York 
* [[Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-1040]], Stanhope
* [[Oxfordshire (1790-94) 1/2 penny token D&H-1]] Banbury
* [[Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-125]], Birmingham, Samuel Garbett
* [[Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-219]], Birmingham, Lutwyche's Dea Pecunia
* [[Worcestershire 1790 half penny token D&H-7]] Dudley
* [[Cheshire 1791 half penny token D&H-47]], Macclesfield
* [[Coins and currency dated 1790]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2021 Collector's Choice sale]]