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
1720 Louisbourg Founded Medal. Betts-145. Copper, 41.2 mm. MS-63 RB (PCGS).
500.5 grains. A spectacularly attractive medal, with rich mint color still bright at peripheries and around devices and lustrous fields toned in blue-tinted brown. Flashy and attractive, with only trivial evidence of handling. This obverse is distinctive, less era-appropriate than the obverse of Betts-144, which actually depicts Louis XV as a child (and was probably the original portrait used on the medal). An 18th century medal with this kind of color and eye appeal is a sight to behold.
PCGS# 614114.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIII, January 2006, lot 836.
Estimate: $4250
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Bidding
| Price realized | 4'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 4'250 USD |
