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

Undated (1723) Rosa Americana Twopence Obverse Die Trial. Martin Obverse 4.2. Bath Metal. Good-4 (PCGS).

201.4 grains. An intriguing piece with an obverse that grades Good and a completely blank reverse. Collected by Syd as a uniface die trial and that is certainly a possibility, but given the well worn condition it is impossible to be certain it was a uniface strike or if the reverse was planed away or just received unusually heavy wear. Lending credence to the die trial possibility is the presence of scratches crisscrossing the reverse, somewhat similar in appearance to other unquestionably genuine Bath metal uniface trial strikes, and the lines appear old and worn over. This is not proof by any means, but worth pointing out. An interesting coin regardless.

PCGS# 905779.

From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex W.E. Johnson, June 17, 1959; Heritage's sale of the W. Philip Keller Collection, October 2010, part of lot 3023. Plated in the Martin reference "The Rosa Americana Coinage of William Wood," p. 339.

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Price realized 480 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 110 USD
The auction is closed.
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