Winter 2022 Showcase Auction – 27 October - 4 November 2022
U.S. Coins and Currency
Part 2: Fr, 28.10.2022, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 3: Tu, 01.11.2022, from 5:00 PM CET
Part 4: Tu, 01.11.2022, from 10:00 PM CET
Part 5: Tu, 01.11.2022, from 11:00 PM CET
Part 6: We, 02.11.2022, from 4:00 PM CET
Part 7: We, 02.11.2022, from 9:00 PM CET
Part 8: Th, 03.11.2022, from 5:00 PM CET
Part 9: Th, 03.11.2022, from 10:00 PM CET
Part 10: Fr, 04.11.2022, from 6:00 PM CET
Part 11: Fr, 04.11.2022, from 11:00 PM CET
Description
1670-A French Colonies 5 Sols. Paris Mint. Martin 5-H. Lecompte-186, W-11605, Breen-256. EF-45 (PCGS).
A very attractive example, with a lot of luster over gold and peach tinted silver gray surfaces. The obverse shows scattered trivial marks and hairlines, nothing serious. The reverse shows some spotting at right and a bit of weakness at center. A boomerang-shaped die crack crosses the date and invades the crown, and a light crack extends past the open end of G into the back of the head on the obverse. Plated in Martin's French Coinage Specifically for Colonial America to illustrate Reverse H, page 66. Syd knew of just two examples from this die marriage, this one and one he graded F-15-. This is a lovely example of the variety or type.
PCGS# 905849.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Jack Beymer, May 2006.
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Bidding
| Price realized | 3'600 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 7'500 USD |
