Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4

from Stack's Bowers June 2022 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71393

This specimen was lot 71393 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, June 2022), where it sold for $600. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Glamorganshire. Swansea. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown. Obverse: View of Swansea Castle; Reverse: Key; Edge: "PAYABLE ON DEMAND". Demonstrating robust red color, this token provides phenomenal strike quality, and an interesting design. A very beautiful example of a trade token."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-4.

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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The June 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

Links to:

• Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-344 Spence’s
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a Spence’s. John Thelwall
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299 Denton's
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751 Thomas Spence
• Coins and currency dated 1796