1722 Rosa Americana Penny. Martin 2.17-B.1, W-1260. Rarity-6. UTILE DULCI--Double Struck--Fine-12 (PCGS).

94.3 grains. A rather dramatic looking error strike for a Rosa Americana. Bold doubling on the obverse portrait with wide offset between the two strikes, although this might technically be a rather extreme example of shelf-doubling or shift-doubling and not a case of two proper strikes, as the doubling appears strictly on the portrait. It seems either the coin or the die slipped after being struck and the doubling resulted from that. The reverse doesn't show any doubling but is bulged at the top of the rose which is the area opposite the obverse offset, and was probably caused by the obverse strike anomaly. An interesting piece and rare die variety as well, the two examples offered here making up two-thirds of the total attributed population seen or reported.

PCGS# 905668.

From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from eBay, January 2002. Includes an ANACS photo certificate dated July 20, 1981.