View source for Cambridgeshire 1795 farthing token D&H-36

[[Image:SB1024-75285o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75285]]
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This specimen was lot 75285 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Cambridgeshire. Copper 1/4 Penny (Farthing) Token, 1795. George III. PCGS MS-63 Brown. A pleasant Choice token with hints of burnished orange in the protected areas." Thousands of varieties exist and [[Conder tokens]] are their own collecting specialty. Farthing tokens, while not rare, are a tiny fraction of the total.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-36. 

''[[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 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, ''October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

''Link to:''
* [[Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-12]], INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
* [[Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-14b]], INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
* [[Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-112a]], Bath, M. Lambe & Son
* [[Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-116]], Bath, Heath Ironmonger
* [[Coins and currency dated 1795]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2024 Collector's Choice sale]]