Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-50

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74864

This specimen was lot 74864 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. Warwickshire. Birmingham. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1793. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Edge: CURRENT EVERY WHERE. Featuring the figure of a nude boy (Mercury?) standing slightly right, holding wand (caduceus?) and leaning upon screw press, this near-Gem glistens with tremendous brilliance and flair."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-50.

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.

Link to:

• Warwickshire 1791 half penny token D&H-34, Birmingham
• Essex 1793 half penny token D&H-11B, Flitch trials
• Inverness 1793 half penny token D&H-1A, Mackintosh Inglis & Wilson
• Middlesex 1793 half penny token D&H-833a, Spence's
• Middlesex 1793 half penny token D&H-834, Spence's
• North Wales 1793 farthing token D&H-15a
• North Wales 1793 half penny token D&H-72
• Shropshire 1793 half penny token D&H-19, Shrewsbury
• Staffordshire 1793 half penny token D&H-13A, Leek
• Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-393, Wilkinson's
• Coins and currency dated 1793