Kent 1794 half penny token D&H-35
This specimen was lot 73854 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2023), where it sold for $120. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Kent. Lamberhurst. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1794. PCGS MS-63 Brown. Obverse: Civic coat-of-arms of Chichester; Reverse: Civic coat-of-arms of Canterbury." Chichester is in Sussex, not Kent; could this piece be a mule?
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: copper.
Catalog reference: D&H-35.
- 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, November 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancient & World Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
Link to:
- Buckinghamshire 1794 half penny token D&H-22, Slough
- Essex 1794 half penny token D&H-3
- Essex 1794 half penny D&H-4, Braintree & Bocking
- Hampshire 1794 half penny D&H-15
- Kent 1794 1/2 penny token D&H-16A, William Pitt the Younger
- Somersetshire 1794 half penny token D&H-34, Bath, Gye
- Sussex 1794 half penny token D&H-15, Chichester
- Coins and currency dated 1794
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