Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-720

Stack's Bowers 2025 ANA sale, lot 44715

This specimen was lot 44715 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Oklahoma City, OK, August 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1795. UNCIRCULATED Details, Flan Crack. Obverse: Lion and cock left; Reverse: facing ass bearing panniers. Note: Unencapsulated by PCGS due to "Peeling Lamination". From the Sydney F. Martin Collection."

Specification: copper.

Recorded Mintage: unknown.

Catalog reference: D&H-720.

Source:

• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2025 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Richard August Collection and the Richard Margolis Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
• 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.

Links to:

• Berkshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-1a, Windsor
• Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-12, INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
• Cambridgeshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-14b, INDUSTRY HAS IT'S [sic] SURE REWARD
• Gloucestershire 1795 half penny token D&H-60, Brimscomb
• Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-23 Emsworth, Earl Howe and the glorious first of June
• Hampshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-29, Earl Howe
• Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-57 Portsmouth, John Howard
• Hertfordshire 1795 1/2 penny token D&H-4, Stortford
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1112 Thos. Spence
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-286, London Corresponding Society
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-292, Coventry Street, filtering stone
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-295, Davidson
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-301, Eaton's Copper
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-308, Guest's Patent Boots
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-313, T. Hall
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-314, Hall's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-315c, Jeffery Dunstan
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-389, Moore's Lace Manufactory
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-396b, Newgate Prison
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 447, Pidcock's Exhibition
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-480, Skidmore's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-522a, Skidmore's
• Middlesex (1795) half penny token D&H-716, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-729b, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-748, Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-790b, Spence's, ODD FELLOWS
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 904, Stinton's
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-977, Princess Caroline of Wales
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H-1018a Lutwyches "General Convenience"
• Middlesex (1795) half penny token D&H-1038g
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1053 Denton's
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1117 Spence's
• Middlesex 1795 farthing token D&H-1118 Spence's
• Monmouthshire 1795 half penny token D&H-3, Monmouth, Powell's
• Somersetshire 1795 half penny token D&H-40, Success to the Bath Waters
• Somersetshire 1795 farthing token D&H-116 Bath
• Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-30, Bury, Guest
• Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-33d
• Coins and currency dated 1795