Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-81

Stack's Bowers 2025 ANA sale, lot 44710

This specimen was lot 44710 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Oklahoma City, OK, August 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Trade Tokens. Middlesex. London & Westminster Series. Copper Penny Token, 1797. PCGS MS-62 Brown. Obverse: Bank of England; Reverse: Arms between oak branches. From the Sydney F. Martin Collection."

Specification: copper.

Recorded Mintage: unknown.

Catalog reference: D&H-81.

Source:

• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2025 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Richard August Collection and the Richard Margolis Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
• 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.

Links to:

• Angusshire 1797 farthing token D&H-42, Dundee
• Angusshire 1797 half penny token D&H-21, Dundee
• Ayrshire 1797 half penny D&H-3, Wm. Fullarton
• Hampshire 1797 half penny token D&H-61, Portsmouth
• Kent 1797 half penny token D&H-41, M. Snow
• Middlesex 1797 penny token D&H-7 British Commercial Penny Token
• Middlesex 1797 quarter penny token D&H-1150, Social Series
• Somersetshire 1797 half penny token D&H-114, Bath. Lambe & Son
• Perthshire 1797 half penny token D&H-1, Perth
• Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-291, Coventry, Drapers Hall
• Warwickshire 1797 half penny token D&H-297a
• Coins and currency dated 1797