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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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1/2P 1788 WALES D&H-282 ANGLESEY E: PAYABLE IN ANGLESEY |
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NGC TOKEN MS 64 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 4/1/2014.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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1/2P 1790 G.BRIT. D&H-8b WORCESTERSHIRE - DUDLEY E: PLAIN |
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NGC TOKEN MS 65 BN |
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Purchased on 4/1/2014.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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1/2P (1790'S) GB D&H-218 WARWICKSHIRE - KEMPSON'S E: PLAIN |
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NGC TOKEN MS 64 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 10/24/2013.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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1/2P 1794 G.BRIT D&H-22 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - SLOUGH |
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NGC TOKEN MS 64 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 4/2/2012.
This piece is listed in Dalton and Hamer as "Scarce" with an estimated mintage of 75-150 pieces. It is an absolutely beautiful brown piece in hand, with gorgeous prooflike liquid fields. The shield on the obverse is reminiscent of the Kentucky Colonial pieces of the early Americas. The Lion on the reverse evokes thoughts of heraldry, and is stunning in his sculpted high relief.
Though listed in Dalton & Hamer among provincial tokens of the 18th Century, by most accounts this piece was struck around 1839 and dated 1794 by a coin dealer named William Till. According to an article in the 1903 British Numismatic Journal, Hamer writes the:
"There are some tokens purporting by the design to have been issued by John Peckham, chemist and druggist, of Slough; and some by W. Till, wine and spirit merchant, of the Red Lion Inn. No mention is made of any of these by Birchall, Conder, Pye, or Sharp, nor are they illustrated in the Virtuoso's Companion, the general opinion being that they were struck for William Till, the coin dealer, probably about the time that he issued the previous specimen. The first numismatic work in which they are recorded is that published by the late D. R. Batty, of Manchester. The writer of the The Bazaar "Notes" describes them, and states that Peckham was a coin collector, and William Till bought his collection. In all probability these tokens were struck to sell to collectors, and bearing, as they do, a fictitious date, W. Till's 1794, J. Peckham's 1795, they cannot be regarded as private tokens."
Regardless of the somewhat shady misleading past, this is a beautiful token with both wonderful designs and great eye appeal.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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G.BRIT - MIDDLESEX |
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1/2P (1790'S)G.B. D&h-342 MIDDLESEX - IBBERSON'S E: PAYABLE AT THE GEORGE |
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NGC MS 65 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 1/22/2013, submitted to NGC in January 2014.
This token was originally in an old NGC holder graded MS62BN. I could tell that it was massively undergraded, and so I cracked it out and resubmitted to NGC for regrading with my membership 5 coin coupon. I was correct, and it graded as MS65BN.
This token exhibits lovely blue tones when tilted into the light, likely due to the bronzed proof surfaces. Bill McKivor says that all Middlesex/Ibberson's DH-342 tokens were strictly speaking bronzed proof strikes. This token is listed as "scarce" in the Dalton & Hamer, and given populations kept by Dr. Gary Sriro, it is likely this token was struck in a quantity of around 300-500 pieces. Most examples are excellently preserved, likely due to these having been sold directly to collectors and used as examples of the quality engraving and minting technology of the Boulton SOHO mint.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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G.BRIT - MIDDLESEX |
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1/2P 1795 G.BRIT D&h-390 MIDDLESEX - NEETON'S E: PLAIN |
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NGC MS 64 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 10/24/2013.
Ex Spingarn Collection.
Struck on an extra large flan, 31 mm diameter.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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1/2P 1795 G.BRIT D&H-471 MIDDLESEX - RICHARDSON'S E: PLAIN |
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NGC TOKEN MS 65 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 6/19/2013.
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Great Britain - Token Halfpenny |
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1/2P (1790'S) GB D&H-414 MIDDLESEX - PIDCOCK'S E: PLAIN |
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NGC MS 64 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 6/13/2013.
Listed as "COMMON" in D&H, but an extremely popular token design and despite it's mintage quite difficult to find for a reasonable price.
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Great Britain - Token Penny |
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G.BRIT - HEREFORDSHIRE |
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PENNY 1796 G.BRIT D&h-4 HEREFORDSHIRE - HEREFORD E: PLAIN |
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NGC MS 65 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 4/14/2015.
Listed in Dalton & Hamer as "Scarce" with an approximate mintage of 150 pieces.
This was struck to commemorate a Mr. Biddulph’s return as a Member of Parliament on June 3rd 1796. The bull breaking his chains represents the county bursting free from its Tory shackles on the election of a Whig. The apple tree alludes to Hereford’s cider industry, and the plough to agriculture.
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Great Britain - Token Penny |
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PENNY 1797 G.BRIT. D&H-3 NORFOLK - NORWICH E: PLAIN |
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NGC TOKEN MS 65 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 10/24/2013.
Scarce, mintage of 75-150 pieces.
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Great Britain - Penny |
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GREAT BRITAIN 1707-1815 |
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PENNY 1806SOHO G.britain |
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NGC AU 58 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 12/3/2012.
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Great Britain - Half Farthing |
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GREAT BRITAIN 1816-1901 |
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1/2F 1843 G.britain |
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NGC MS 65 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 5/15/2013.
Mintage of 3,441,000 coins, and listed in Krause at $200 in MS60. This specimen is a top population coin at NGC in the BN (brown) color designation graded at MS65BN. These fractional farthings were originally struck for Ceylon; however, the issue was made legal tender in the United Kingdom by proclamation in 1842.
NGC population of:
2 in MS65BN, none finer.
2 in MS65RB, none finer.
0 in any grade of RD.
PCGS population:
2 in MS64BN, none finer
1 in MS65RB, none finer
1 in MS63RD, none finer
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Canada - Ferry Token |
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COPPER (UNDATED) CANADA BRETON-900 FERRY TOKEN HALIFAX STEAM BOAT CO. |
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NGC TOKEN MS 64 RB |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 8/29/2013.
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Province of Canada - Half-penny token |
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CANADA - TOKENS |
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1/2P 1857 PC-5D BANK OF UPPER CANADA |
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NGC MS 63 BN |
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Owner Comments
Purchased on 7/16/2013.
Obverse Description: St. George on horseback facing right slaying a dragon with a sword; around above, BANK OF UPPER CANADA; in exergue between two roses, 1857; the letters R.K. & Co. on in the right side of the ground line represent the firm Row, Kentish & Co., London through whom the order for the production of the tokens had been placed. The depiction of St. George is based on the design by Benedetto Pistrucci for the British sovereign of 1817 and is considered to be the definitive representation of the theme.
Reverse Description: The seal of Upper Canada, an anchor and sword of justice crossed on a wreath of oak through which passes a tomahawk and arrow below a Royal crown and above a pair of cornucopiae transversed, a segment of the Union Jack in the upper right corner; around, BANK TOKEN ONE HALF- PENNY
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The Bank of Upper Canada was established in 1821 in York (Toronto, Ontario) under a charter granted by the Province of Upper Canada in 1819. When Upper and Lower Canada were united in 1841 to form the Province of Canada, it was decided that only the bank that held the government accounts should have the right to issue copper tokens. This privilege was enjoyed by the Bank of Montreal until 1848. Following the passage of the Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849, rioting in Montreal led to the destruction of the legislative buildings and the capital of the province was transferred to Toronto. As a result, the right to issue tokens passed to the Bank of Upper Canada.
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Availability:
While relatively common in grades of XF and lower, these Bank of Upper Canada tokens become difficult to find in AU grades, and outright hard to locate in true MS condition. Of the 1857 issues in particular, Robert Wallace McLachlan wrote in his 1916 book "The Copper Tokens of Upper Canada":
"A most extensive coinage of this date, both of pennies and half-pennies was struck, but before much of it was put into circulation, the decimal currency act of 1858 was passed, which necessitated the coinage of the cents of 1858 and 1859. The balance of these bank tokens therefore remained in the vaults of the Montreal branch for a number of years, when they were sold to a coppersmith and melted down."
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USA - Collectors medalet |
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NY 1860 NEW YORK M-NY-491C GEORGE H. LOVETT |
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NGC MS 64 BN PL |
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Owner Comments
Purchased from John Kraljevich on 1/8/2015 at the Winter FUN Show (Orlando, FL).
Previously sold for $780 in the Steve Hayden auction in June 2, 2013 raw with the description:
Lot 761 - MILLER NY 491C MS63 10% Red mainly on the reverse, nearly Proof Like with attractive toning. George H. Lovett muling of We All Have Our Hobbies reverse featuring a witch on broom stick and Dedicated To Coin And Medal Collectors 1860 struck in Copper with Plain edge. A similar example brought $875 in our December 2012 auction. From the Richard Crosby collection earlier from Ray Byrne in 1983. (Estimate 750-1000)
The medalet/token was also struck in white metal (491A) and brass (491B). It is quite popular among collectors, demanding strong prices when the come available. Surviving examples are low in all metal types, with Bowers and Jaeger estimating only 125 to 250 examples in copper extant (a rarity of roughly R-5 on the Fuld scale). The design came in at #47 on the list of the "100 Greatest American Tokens and Medals" by Bowers and Jaeger.
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