Machin's Mills Halfpenny
1774 Machin's Mills Halfpenny. Vlack 7-74A, W-7770. Rarity-6-. GEORGIUS III, Group I. VF Details--Environmental Damage (PCGS).
146.4 grains. Fields are dark brown and roughened by porosity, the high points worn to a light golden brown, the overall eye appeal still positive despite the less than perfectly preserved surfaces. One of the sharpest survivors of this die marriage we have seen, probably closer to EF for the die marriage. It is sharper than any we have sold in the last dozen years and sharper than the 2000 Ringo sale coin, the Alan Kessler- Whitman Encyclopedia plate coin, and the Stack's September 1993 example. Dies rotated about 20 degrees from coin turn. Here is a fantastic place holder for this 1774 U in legend type, which at 146.4 grains is one of the heaviest recorded examples of any die marriage (although a good number of examples of 7-74A are found at 140 grains or more).
PCGS# 942 and 826949.
From the E Pluribus Unum Collection.
Estimate: $500