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
1788 Vermont Copper. RR-16, Bressett 15-S, W-2120. Rarity-1. Bust Right. AU-55+ (PCGS).
101.6 grains. RR-16 is perhaps the most common of all Vermont coppers, but its generally high production quality and aesthetically pleasing, mostly unflawed planchets makes it a common choice to represent the 1788 Vermont Bust Right type in collections. This one is light chocolate brown with ruddy highlights where the original mint color was last to fade, the fields boasting abundant original mint luster, the overall surfaces showing an absolute absence of surface issues. A touch of cabinet friction and a general softness in the central strike is the rule for RR-16s struck on smaller, lighter weight flans, the unstruck portion at the centers revealing some of the original texture of the planchet. Here is a coin that is essentially Mint State and that hails from the collection of Larry Stack, whose eye for quality type coins like this one greatly benefited Syd when part of Larry's colonial coin cabinet entered Syd's.
PCGS# 911717.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection, November 2006.
Estimate: $4400
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Bidding
| Price realized | 2'600 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 4'400 USD |
