Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751

Stack's Bowers 2015 NYINC sale, lot 1083

This specimen was lot 1083 in Stacks-Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2015), where it sold for $1,997.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Middlesex. 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-66 BN Secure Holder. Thomas Spence. Copper. Cat atop tree branch; Reverse: Dog. Sharply struck. Nice mahogany surfaces with traces of mint red. Very attractive and exceptionally choice."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-751.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, The January 2015 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Featuring the John W. Adams and Ray Czabor Collections, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2014.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• 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.

Link to:

• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 447
• Middlesex 1795 half penny token D&H 904
• Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2
• Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299 Denton's
• 1794 guinea
• Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-297a
• Coins and currency dated 1796
• return to Conder tokens