Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-393

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75377

This specimen was lot 75377 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Warwickshire. Wilkinson's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1793. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Bust of Wilkinson right; Reverse: Man working at drop hammer. From the Richard Margolis Collection." Wikipedia comments, "John 'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as cannon barrels."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-393.

Source:

• Conder, James. An arrangement of Provincial Coins, 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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

• Warwickshire 1787 half penny token D&H-359, Wilkinson's
• Warwickshire (1790-94) half penny token D&H-154, Birmingham, P. Kempson
• Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-219, Birmingham, Lutwyches Dea Pecunia
• Warwickshire 1792 half penny token D&H-389, Wilkinson's
• Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-50, Birmingham
• Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-297a, Coventry, Kempson's
• Coins and currency dated 1793