View source for Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-661

[[Image:SB1024-75300o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75300]]
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This specimen was lot 75300 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $192. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Skidmore's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown. Obverse: Gate; Reverse: Monogram. Highly brilliant with much coppery red fla[ir]." Thousands of varieties exist and [[Conder tokens]] are their own collecting speciality.  

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-661. 

''[[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:''
* [[Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1112]] Thos. Spence
* [[Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-16]], Dundee
* [[Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4]], Swansea Castle
* [[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]], Milton's
* [[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-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
* [[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
* [[Coins and currency dated 1796]]

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