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[[Image:SB524-32508o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers May 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 32508]]
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This specimen was lot 32508 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $125. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Great Britain|GREAT BRITAIN]]. Trade Tokens. Shropshire. Shrewsbury. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1793. PCGS MS-62 Brown. Quite appealing and charming, this near-Choice 1/2 Penny displays good details, with soft chocolate brown appeal." Shrewsbury is the county seat of Shropshire, origin of the famous sheep breed. A woolsack is depicted on the reverse. This is the first token we have posted from this shire.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-19. 

''[[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:''
* [[Shropshire 1792 half penny token D&H-9]], Coalbrookdale, iron bridge
* [[North Wales 1793 half penny token D&H-72]], druid
* [[Staffordshire 1793 half penny token D&H-13A]], Leek
* [[Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-50]] Birmingham
* [[Coins and currency dated 1793]]

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