Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-301

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74826

This specimen was lot 74826 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $168. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Eaton's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. NGC MS-65 Brown. Edge: Engrailed left. This warm brown Gem features some rather enticing pullaway color among the legends." Numista comments, "Daniel Isaac Eaton was tried on a number of occasions for publishing seditious material. He was eventually found guilty of libel but managed to get away to America for three years, only to face fifteen month’s prison on his return, and the destruction of £28,000 worth of stock by fire. In 1812 he was sentenced to eighteen months in Newgate Prison and then an hour in the pillory, where he was cheered and showered with flowers the whole time. He died in poverty a few years afterwards. For some time he occupied a shop at 'The Cock and Swine' the emblem of which is featured on the reverse of the token."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, 9.18 g, 29.1 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: D&H-301.

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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