Devonshire 1792 half penny token D&H-2

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74822

This specimen was lot 74822 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $125. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Devonshire. Exeter. Copper 1/2 Penny Token, 1792. PCGS MS-63 Brown. A Choice exemplar of the type, offering shimmery brown surfaces and crisply struck detail."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: D&H-2.

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:

• Devonshire 1789 half penny D&H-8, Plymouth
• Devonshire 1792 half penny token D&H-6, Plymouth
• Hampshire 1792 half penny token D&H-46, Newport
• Coins and currency dated 1792