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* [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-120]], Birmingham, Bissets Museum | * [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-120]], Birmingham, Bissets Museum | ||
* [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323]], Stratford | * [[Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323]], Stratford | ||
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* [[Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61]], Portsmouth | * [[Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61]], Portsmouth | ||
* [[Coins and currency dated 1796]] | * [[Coins and currency dated 1796]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:15, 2 December 2025
This specimen was lot 32498 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $145. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Hampshire. Portsea. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. NGC AU-58 Brown. Obverse: St. George on horseback slaying dragon; Reverse: Ship above fish. Edge: PAYABLE AT S. SALMON S. COURTNEY & E. FROST PORTSEA. A charming chocolate-brown piece with glossy luster in the fields." Portsea is the island on which the city of Portsmouth is sited.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-79.
- 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, May 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
Link to:
- Hampshire 1795 half penny token D&H-57, Portsmouth, John Howard
- Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4 Swansea Castle
- Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25, Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
- Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25, Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
- Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79, Portsea
- Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2
- Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2, St. Albans
- Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19, Edinburgh, Harrison's
- Middlesex 1796 farthing token D&H-1123a, Skidmore's
- 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-661, Skidmore's, Temple Bar
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751, Thomas Spence
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-838, Spence's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a, Spence’s. John Thelwall
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-1111a Spence's
- Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
- Suffolk 1796 half penny token D&H-24b, Bungay
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-120, Birmingham, Bissets Museum
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323, Stratford
- Gloucestershire 1797 half penny token D&H-62, Gloucester and Berkeley Canal
- Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61, Portsmouth
- Coins and currency dated 1796