Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1118

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74852

This specimen was lot 74852 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $240. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Political & Social Series. Spence's Copper Farthing Token, 1795. NGC AU-53. Edge: Plain. The ever popular "am I not a man and a brother?" type, this fractional issue features rich brown surfaces and only a slight degree of handling."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-1118 (R).

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

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• Berkshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-1a, Windsor
• Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-12, INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
• Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-14b, INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
• Gloucestershire 1795 half penny token D&H-60, Brimscomb
• Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-23 Emsworth, Earl Howe and the glorious first of June
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• Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-57, Portsmouth, John Howard
• Hertfordshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-4, Stortford
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1112 Thos. Spence
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-286, London Corresponding Society
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• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-313, T. Hall
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• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-315c, Jeffrey Dunstan
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• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-480, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-522a, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-720, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-726, Spence's, BRITISH LIBERTY DISPLAYED
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-729b, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-748, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-790b, Spence's, ODD FELLOWS
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 904, Stinton's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-977, Princess Caroline of Wales
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-985a, Duke of York
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-1018a, Lutwyches "General Convenience"
• Middlesex (1795) half penny token D&H-1038g, "AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER"
• Middlesex (1790-94) penny token D&H-233, AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER
• Middlesex (1795) penny token D&H-236, "AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER"
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1053, Denton's
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1117, Spence's
• Monmouthshire 1795 half penny token D&H-3, Monmouth, Powell's
• Somersetshire 1795 half penny token D&H-40, Success to the Bath Waters
• Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-116 Bath
• Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-30, Bury, Guest
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