Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-344
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This specimen was lot 22762 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $336. The catalog description[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Middlesex. James' 1/2 Penny Token, 1796. PCGS MS-64 Brown Gold Shield. Edge inscribed: SPENCE DEALER IN COINS LONDON. Perfectly detailed example. Sharply struck with lovely dark brown surfaces. Tokens of Spence are marvelously diverse, and an extensive collection could be formed of the different varieties. He was a "character" in his own time, perhaps a British equivalent to our own Lord Timothy Dexter. Lots of fun to contemplate! From the Q. David Bowers Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper
Catalog reference: D&H-344.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2019 Chicago ANA Auction: World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
- 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.
Link to:
- Angusshire 1796 half penny token D&H-16, Dundee
- Glamorganshire 1796 1/2 penny token D&H-4, Swansea Castle
- Gloucestershire 1796 half penny token D&H-25, Badminton, "CORN IMPORTED BY GOVERNMENT"
- Hampshire 1796 half penny token D&H-79, Portsea
- Herefordshire 1796 penny token D&H-2, Milton's
- Hertfordshire 1796 half penny token D&H-2, St. Albans
- Lothian 1796 half penny token D&H-19, Edinburgh, Harrison's
- Middlesex 1796 farthing token D&H-1123a, Skidmore's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-299, Denton's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-661, Skidmore's, Temple Bar
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-751, Thomas Spence
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-838, Spence's
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-865a, Spence’s. John Thelwall
- Middlesex 1796 half penny token D&H-1111a Spence's
- Norfolk 1796 half penny token D&H-53, Yarmouth, Boulter's Exhibition
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-55, Birmingham
- Warwickshire 1796 half penny token D&H-323, Stratford
- Coins and currency dated 1796