Middlesex (1790-94) penny token D&H-233

Stack's Bowers 2025 ANA sale, lot 44713

This specimen was lot 44713 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Oklahoma City, OK, August 2025), where it sold for $264. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Anti-Slavery Society. Copper Penny Token, ND (ca. 1790). PCGS Genuine--Environmental Damage, Unc Details. D&H-233; BHM-269; Eimer-836. Obverse: Enslaved man kneeling; Reverse: Legend in six lines. From the Richard Margolis Collection."

Specification: copper.

Recorded Mintage: unknown.

Catalog reference: D&H-177.

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:

• Anglesey 1790 half penny token D&H-380, druid
• Cheshire 1790 half penny token D&H-25, Macclesfield
• Middlesex (1788-97) half penny token D&H-953, Prince George
• Somersetshire (1788-97) half penny token D&H-28, Bath, NO 39 MILSOM STREET
• Somersetshire (1788-97) half penny token D&H-36, Bath, John Howard
• Suffolk (1788-97) half penny token D&H-23a, Bungay
• Middlesex (1790-94) penny token D&H-55, Goldsmith's Hall
• Middlesex (1795) penny token D&H-236, AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER
• Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-416b Pidcock's Exhibition
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-451, Pidcock's African Crowned Crane
• Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-454, Gilbert Pidcock
• Middlesex (1790-94) half penny token D&H-576, Skidmore's, St. Giles church
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-722, Spence's, I WAS AN ASS TO BEAR THE FIRST PAIR
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-761, Spence's, ENGLISH SLAVERY
• Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-785, D. Mendoza
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-818 Spence's, THE END OF OPPRESSION
• Middlesex 1790 half penny token D&H-825, Spence's
• Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-984, Duke of York
• Middlesex (1790-96) half penny token D&H-1037, AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER
• Middlesex (1790) half penny token D&H-1040, Stanhope/Hampden & Sydney
• Middlesex (1790-96) farthing token D&H-1108, Skidmore's
• Middlesex (1790-96) farthing token D&H-1110, Spence's, "Pandora's Breeches"
• Middlesex (1790) penny token D&H-223, Charles Fox
• Oxfordshire (1790-94) 1/2 penny token D&H-1, Banbury
• Somersetshire (1790-94) half penny token D&H-74, Bath free school
• Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-125, Birmingham, Samuel Garbett
• Warwickshire (1790) half penny token D&H-219, Birmingham, Lutwyche's Dea Pecunia
• Worcestershire 1790 half penny token D&H-7, Dudley
• Coins and currency dated 1790