Norfolk 1794 half penny token D&H-22

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70768

This specimen was lot 70768 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2018), where it sold for $144. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Norfolk, Norwich. 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. George III (1760-1820). PCGS MS-63 BN Secure Holder. Umbrella with glove, sock, and hat below, legend around and date below; Reverse: Barrel with legend around. Good strike with chocolate surfaces and some red in the peripheral legends."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-22.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The May 2018 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.
• 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.

Link to:

• Middlesex 1794 half penny token D&H-477, Francis Shackelton
• Middlesex 1794 half penny token D&H-687
• Hampshire 1794 half penny D&H-15
• Lancashire 1794 penny token D&H-3, Lancashire Bridge, A. Seward
• Lincolnshire 1794 half penny token D&H-4
• Norfolk 1794 half penny token D&H-12
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 904
• 1794 guinea
• Suffolk 1795 half penny token D&H-33d
• Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
• Coins and currency dated 1794
• return to Conder tokens