Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299
This specimen was lot 21087 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $780. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Middlesex. 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. Denton's. PCGS MS-64 Brown Gold Shield. Denton's Collectors' Halfpenny. Obverse: Collector, smoking pipe, seated left at table covered with coins and medals; to right, old man placing a fool's cap on the collector's head; Reverse: Two boys racing on asses right with ASSES RUNNING FOR HALFPENCE; Edge Lettering: ANY SUM GIVEN FOR SCARCE IMPRESSIONS. Deep chocolate surfaces, with some hints of peripheral red. An exceptional, problem free example of this numismatically interesting satirical token -- one of the most famous in the series. From Jerry Bobbe in 2001, a token hand selected for quality; the Q. David Bowers Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-299.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2019 Chicago ANA Auction: World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
- 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.
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- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a Spence’s. John Thelwall
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751 Thomas Spence
- Coins and currency dated 1796
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