Description
Great Britain 1797 Halfpenny Conder Token, Middlesex, Skidmore’s Aldersgate DH-649 MS64RB PCGS. Obv. Portrait of Aldersgate (an ancient gate in the wall surrounding the City of London) with Jacobs and BT 1670 in exergue. Rev. PK cipher in the center, 1797 date below, around DEDICATED TO COLLECTORS OF MEDALS & COINS (Skidmore’s Reverse Die No. 2, see Dalton & Hamer 2015 reprint edition, page 165). This piece shows prooflike surfaces with a bulging (convex) central obverse, mostly mint red, and a correspondingly somewhat concave central reverse, blue in the center and a ruddy reddish periphery. Pretty but unusual. PCGS Population: 1 in 64RB, 1 finer (10/2019).
