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[[Image:SB224-74860o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74860]]
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This specimen was lot 74860 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $192. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Great Britain|GREAT BRITAIN]]. Trade Tokens. Somersetshire. Bath. Lambe & Son's Copper Farthing Token, 1797. NGC MS-64 Brown. Edge: Engrailed right. Surpassed in the NGC census by just one example, this near-Gem displays a camel along with a tea chest."

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown. 

''Specification:'' copper. 

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-114. 

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

''Link to:''
* [[Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-112a]], Bath, M. Lambe & Son
* [[Angusshire 1797 farthing token D&H-42]], Dundee
* [[Angusshire 1797 half penny token D&H-21]], Dundee
* [[Ayrshire 1797 half penny D&H-3]], Wm. Fullarton
* [[Buckinghamshire (1797) half penny token D&H-16]], Aylesbury
* [[Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-81]],  London & Westminster Series, Bank of England
* [[Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-127]], Skidmore's, Kew Palace
* [[Middlesex 1797 quarter penny token D&H-1150]]
* [[Gloucestershire 1797 half penny token D&H-62]], Gloucester and Berkeley Canal
* [[Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61]], Portsmouth
* [[Kent 1797 half penny token D&H-41]], M. Snow
* [[Perthshire 1797 half penny token D&H-1]], Perth
* [[Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-280]], Coventry, White Friars Gate
* [[Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-291]], Coventry, Drapers Hall
* [[Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-297a]], Coventry, Free School
* [[Coins and currency dated 1797]]

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