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 12-A. Lecompte-186, W-11605, Breen-256. AU-55 (PCGS).
Martin's plate coin for Obverse 12, the sole example of this die marriage encountered by him. Frosty light silver gray with darker tones around peripheral legends on both sides. Exquisitely well detailed and very pleasing. A single horizontal adjustment mark is noted near central obverse; diagonal ones run along the same path as Louis' hair and blend in. Similar crisscross shallow adjustment lines are seen at central reverse, along with a batch at the rim above DIC. The thin crack that runs through G of GLORIAM appears to be in an earlier die state than the Martin 2-A in the collection. The obverse is perfect.
PCGS# 905854.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Vincent W. Alones Collection; Apoth Coins' (Lynchburg, Virginia) Virginia Numismatic Association auction of September 2012, lot 2.
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Bidding
| Price realized | 4'800 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 11'000 USD |
