View source for Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-280

[[Image:SB1024-75312o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75312]]
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This specimen was lot 75312 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $336. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Kempson's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1797. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: "WHITE FRIARS GATE" View of gate; Reverse: "THE ARMS OF COVENTRY" Arms center, 1797 below. Subtly mottled chocolate brown surfaces and a delightfully fresh strike in near-Gem preservation." Thousands of varieties exist and [[Conder tokens]] are their own collecting specialty.  

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' D&H-280. 

''[[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:''
* [[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
* [[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
* [[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
* [[Somersetshire 1797 half penny token D&H-114]], Bath. Lambe & Son
* [[Perthshire 1797 half penny token D&H-1]], Perth
* [[Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-291]], Coventry, Drapers Hall
* [[Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-297a]], Coventry, Free School
* [[Warwickshire 1799 penny token D&H-27a]], Birmingham, Thomas Welch
* [[Coins and currency dated 1797]]

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