Middlesex 1811 half penny token D-65

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74854

This specimen was lot 74854 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $145. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Thomas Wood Auctioneer Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1811. PCGS MS-62 Brown. Obverse: Facade of the old stock exchange; Reverse: legend in 14 lines. A beautiful example of this token issue. Toned to a matte brown but with some flashy red highlights that amplify its charm." This is not, strictly speaking, a Conder token, being issued after the initial period of their popularity, but we have filed it there nevertheless.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: Withers-845; Davis-65.

Source:

• Bell, R. C., Copper Commercial Coins, 1811-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne: Corbitt & Hunter Ltd, 1964
• Paul and Bente Withers, British Copper Tokens, 1811-1820, including those of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales: Galata Print, Ltd, 1999.
• ^[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 1811 18 pence token D-4, Reading, I. B. Monck
• Cheshire 1811 shilling token D-1, Nantwich
• Cornwall 1811 shilling token D-7, Launceston
• Devonshire 1811 shilling token D-19, Teignmouth
• Dorsetshire 1811 6 pence token D-29, Shaftesbury
• Dorsetshire 1811 shilling token D-21, Shaftesbury
• Flintshire 1811 shilling token D-3
• Hampshire 1811 shilling token D-35, Portsmouth
• Middlesex 1811 shilling token D-28, London
• Norfolk 1811 shilling token D-15, Yarmouth
• Norfolk 1811 shilling token D-16, Yarmouth
• Norfolk 1811 shilling token D-17, Yarmouth
• Nottinghamshire 1811 shilling token D-4, Newark: Stansall, Moor, Fisher, Fillingham, Readett & Wilson
• Northamptonshire 1811 shilling token D-5, Peterborough
• Northamptonshire 1811 18 pence token D-3, Peterborough
• Somersetshire 1811 shilling token D-23, Bristol
• Staffordshire 1811 penny token, Bilston
• Staffordshire (1814) 2 pence token, John Henrickson
• Staffordshire 1811 shilling token D-2, Bilston
• Staffordshire 1811 shilling token D-8, Fazeley
• Staffordshire 1811 shilling token D-14, Stafford
• Sussex 1811 shilling token D-11, Chichester
• Warwickshire 1811 shilling token D-8, Birmingham
• Warwickshire 1812 shilling token D-17, Birmingham
• Yorkshire 1811 shilling token D-77, York
• Yorkshire 1812 half penny token D-150, Sheffield, Horatio Nelson
• Yorkshire 1812 shilling token D-9, Doncaster
• Yorkshire 1812 shilling token D-32, Leeds
• Coins and currency dated 1811