Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-313

Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 75292

This specimen was lot 75292 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $105. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Hall's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. PCGS AU-55. Obverse: Kangaroo, armadillo, and rhinoceros; Reverse: Legend and date in six lines. Edge: Plain. Nice brown patina and a charming representation of these three exotic creatures." Thousands of varieties exist and Conder tokens are their own collecting specialty.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-313.

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. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
• ^[1]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.

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