View source for Shropshire 1792 half penny token D&H-9

[[Image:SB1024-75306o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75306]]
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This specimen was lot 75306 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. Shropshire. Coalbrookdale. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1792. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: View of bridge with vessel; Reverse: A man working a machine. Sharp and glossy with a metallic blue finish." Thousands of varieties exist and [[Conder tokens]] are their own collecting specialty. Coalbrookdale is today famous as the site where Abraham Darby first smelted iron using coke instead of charcoal around 1709. His son built the first cast iron bridge in 1781 nearby in Ironbridge.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-9. 

''[[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:''
* [[Devonshire 1792 half penny token D&H-6]], Shepheard, Dove, Hammett & Co.
* [[Hampshire 1792 half penny token D&H-46]], Newport, Robt. Wilkins
* [[Lancashire 1792 half penny token D&H-127A]], Manchester, John Fielding
* [[Lancashire 1792 half penny token D&H-149]], Rochdale
* [[Middlesex 1792 half penny token D&H-928]]
* [[Norfolk 1792 half penny token D&H-28]], Norwich, Dunham & Yallop
* [[Norfolk 1792 half penny token D&H-45]], Norwich
* [[Nottinghamshire 1792 half penny token D&H-8]], Nottingham, Donald & Co.
* [[Warwickshire 1792 half penny token D&H-231]], Coventry
* [[Shropshire 1793 half penny token D&H-19]], Shrewsbury
* [[Coins and currency dated 1792]]

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