Stack's Bowers Galleries

Winter 2022 Showcase Auction  –  27 October - 4 November 2022

Stack's Bowers Galleries, Winter 2022 Showcase Auction

U.S. Coins and Currency

Part 1: Th, 27.10.2022, from 6:00 PM CEST
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
The auction is closed.

Description

1721-H French Colonies Sou, or 9 Deniers. La Rochelle Mint. Martin 3.8-B.2, W-11830. Rarity-6. VF-30 (PCGS).

95.7 grains. Light chocolate-brown and steel surfaces with some minor porosity, light marks, and extremely faint hairlines. All are insignificant issues, and overall the coin is quite pleasing thanks to the strong, well centered detail and light, even color. The obverse is as well framed as possible on the tight fitting planchet, and the reverse detail is full and bold as well. Noticeable die sinking in the obverse fields becomes heavier in later states of this variety. A solid Choice VF example.

PCGS# 905898.

From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from WAG Online oHG's (Germany) Auction #31, lot 183; John Kraljevich, October 2014. Plated in the Martin reference "French Coinage Specifically for Colonial America," pp. 272, 312.

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Price realized 900 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 750 USD
The auction is closed.
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