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[[Image:SB524-32498o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers May 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 32498]]
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This specimen was lot 32498 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $145. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Great Britain|GREAT BRITAIN]]. Trade Tokens. Hampshire. Portsea. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. NGC AU-58 Brown. Obverse: St. George on horseback slaying dragon; Reverse: Ship above fish. Edge: PAYABLE AT S. SALMON S. COURTNEY & E. FROST PORTSEA. A charming chocolate-brown piece with glossy luster in the fields." Portsea is the island on which the city of Portsmouth is sited.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-79. 

''[[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, ''May 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

''Link to:''
* [[Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-57]], Portsmouth, John Howard
* [[Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4]] Swansea Castle
* [[Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25]], Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
* [[Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25]], Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
* [[Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79]], Portsea
* [[Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2]]
* [[Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2]], St. Albans
* [[Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19]], Edinburgh, Harrison's
* [[Middlesex 1796 farthing token D&H-1123a]], Skidmore's
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299]], Denton's
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-344]], Spence's
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-661]], Skidmore's, Temple Bar
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751]], Thomas Spence
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-838]], Spence's
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a]], Spence’s. John Thelwall
* [[Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-1111a]] Spence's
* [[Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53]], Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
* [[Suffolk 1796 half penny token D&H-24b]], Bungay
* [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55]], Birmingham
* [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-120]], Birmingham, Bissets Museum
* [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323]], Stratford
* [[Gloucestershire 1797 half penny token D&H-62]], Gloucester and Berkeley Canal
* [[Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61]], Portsmouth
* [[Coins and currency dated 1796]]

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