August 2023 Global Showcase Auction – 14 - 21 August 2023
Live Sessions: Ancient and World Coins, Currency
Part B: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part D: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part C: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 3: We, 16.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 16.08.2023, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part 5: We, 16.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 17.08.2023, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part E: Th, 17.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 17.08.2023, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 18.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Mo, 21.08.2023, from 4:00 PM CEST
Description
1723 Compagnie des Indes Medal. Betts-113. Silver, 30.6 mm. AU-55 (PCGS).
128.5 grains. An important jeton-sized medalet celebrating the Compagnie des Indes and depicting its evocative company arms, depicted by a pair of allegorical American natives. Brilliant silver gray with flashy surfaces. Somewhat handled and hairlined, but crisp and attractive. Often included in collections of Franco-American jetons, and included in Frossard's monograph on the series, this has always been a scarce but popular piece. We've sold three in the last decade. A PCGS EF-40 brought $1,800 in our November 2021 sale, the exceptionally pretty E Pluribus Unum AU-50 (PCGS) brought $7,800 in the same November 2021 sale, and the LaRiviere-Sallay piece graded AU-58 (PCGS) brought $9,400 in November 2016.
PCGS# 615030.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex the John W. Adams Collection; our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of September 1985, lot 3112; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIII, January 2006, lot 832.
Estimate: $4250
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Bidding
| Price realized | 6'500 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 4'250 USD |
