Cheshire 1790 half penny token D&H-25

from the Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71159

This specimen was lot 71159 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $120. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Cheshire. Maeclesfield. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1790. PCGS MS-64 Brown. A gorgeous example with cobalt blue toning and violate highlights, with a sharp strike and bold details." Macclesfield is a market town in Cheshire, England, population 57,539. The bust is probably not of Thomas Parker (1723-95), 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, but of Charles Roe (1715-81), founder of a copper foundry there.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: DH-25.

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, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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