View source for Cornwall 1791 half penny token D&H-2

[[Image:SB225-75363o.jpg|300px|thumb|from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75363]]
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This specimen was lot 75363 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Great Britain|GREAT BRITAIN]]. Trade Tokens. Cornwall. County. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1791. PCGS MS-65 Brown. Plain edge. Obverse: Draped head of Druid left; wreath around; Reverse: Coat of arms. From the Richard Margolis Collection." This [[Conder tokens|token]] was struck at the Soho mint using dies inspired by the [[Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-252|North Wales tokens]]. It was heavier than the average token but not enough to pass for a penny.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 13.14 g, copper, 29 mm diameter. 

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-2. 

''[[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.
* <sup>[1]</sup>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.

''Link to:''
* [[Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-252]]
* [[Hampshire 1791 half penny token D&H-89]], Southampton
* [[Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-34]], Birmingham
* [[Worcestershire 1791 half penny token D&H-27]], Kidderminster
* [[Yorkshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-17]], Jonathan Garton & Co.
* [[Lancashire 1791 half penny token D&H-140]], Rochdale
* [[Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-160]], P. Kempson
* [[Wiltshire 1791 1/2 penny token D&H-12]]
* [[Cornwall 1794 half penny token D&H-4]], Penryn Volunteers
* [[Coins and currency dated 1791]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2025 Collectors Choice sale]]