Middlesex 1793 half penny token D&H-833a

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74838

This specimen was lot 74838 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $336. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. Spence's Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1793. NGC AU-50. Edge: Plain. Displaying a man hanging from a gibbet, this "end of pain" issue displays very little evidence of handling or time in circulation, making it an excellent representative of the type."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-833a.

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. reprinted 2015 by Thomas Publications, Gettysburg, PA.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

Link to:

• Essex 1793 half penny token D&H-11B Flitch trials
• Inverness 1793 half penny token D&H-1A Mackintosh Inglis & Wilson
• Middlesex 1793 half penny token D&H-834 Spence's
• North Wales 1793 farthing token D&H-15a
• North Wales 1793 half penny token D&H-72
• Staffordshire 1793 half penny token D&H-13A, Leek
• Warwickshire 1793 half penny token D&H-50 Birmingham
• Coins and currency dated 1793