Difference between revisions of "Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-1040"
(added link) |
m (Text replacement - "* [[Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930" to "* Middlesex 1789 penny token D&H-177, St. Paul's * [[Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930") |
||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
''Link to:'' | ''Link to:'' | ||
| + | * [[Middlesex 1789 penny token D&H-177]], St. Paul's | ||
* [[Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930]] St. Pauls | * [[Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930]] St. Pauls | ||
* [[Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-380]] druid | * [[Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-380]] druid | ||
Revision as of 08:01, 6 October 2025
This specimen was lot 46480 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Stanhope Copper 1/2 Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790). PCGS MS-64 Brown. Obverse: Bust left of Stanhope holding a book; Reverse: Altar with flame and Liberty Cap in star above." We aren't sure who is honored or satirized here. Candidates include Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749-1821), industrialist; Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope (1714-1786); Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield (1755-1815), diplomat and courtier; Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), politician and inventor; Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington (1753-1829), soldier and politician.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-1040.
- 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, August 2024 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Emilio M. Ortiz Collection, The Richard Margolis Collection and The Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
Link to:
- Middlesex 1789 penny token D&H-177, St. Paul's
- Middlesex 1789 half penny token D&H-930 St. Pauls
- Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-380 druid
- Cheshire 1790 half penny token D&H-25 Macclesfield
- Middlesex (1788-97) half penny token D&H-953, Prince George
- Somersetshire (1788-97) half penny token D&H-28, Bath, NO 39 MILSOM STREET
- Somersetshire (1788-97) half penny token D&H-36, Bath, John Howard
- Suffolk (1788-97) half penny token D&H-23a, Bungay
- Middlesex (1790-94) penny token D&H-55, Goldsmith's Hall
- Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-345a, Kelly's Patent Sadlery
- Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-416b Pidcock's Exhibition
- Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-454, Gilbert Pidcock
- Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-576, Skidmore's, St. Giles church
- Somersetshire (1790-94) half penny token D&H-74, Bath free school
- Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-785 D. Mendoza
- Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-825 Spence's
- Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-984, Duke of York
- Middlesex (1790) penny token D&H-223, Charles Fox
- Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-125, Birmingham, Samuel Garbett
- Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-219, Birmingham, Lutwyche's Dea Pecunia
- Worcestershire 1790 half penny token D&H-7, Dudley
- Coins and currency dated 1790