Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 43396

This specimen was lot 43396 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $216. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SCOTLAND. Lothian, Edinburgh-Harrison's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-64. Ex: Mermaid Collection."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H 19.

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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

Link to:

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• Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4, Swansea Castle
• Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2, Milton's
• Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2, St. Albans
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299, Denton's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-344, Spence's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751, Thomas Spence
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a, Spence’s. John Thelwall
• Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
• Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
• Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323, Stratford
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