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-31, Bressett 24-U, Vlack 22-88VT, W-2260. Rarity-4. GEORGIVS III REX. EF-40 (PCGS).
129.8 grains. This is about as high grade and sharply struck a RR-31 as you will find, with the hair, laurel wreath and other bust detail sharp if interrupted by a large planchet irregularity at obverse center. Well-centered on a large flan, with much of the widely spaced, triangular denticulation visible around the circumference, while the reverse is centered toward 7 o'clock, with the date tight to the rim and weakened by a crescent of black scale at lower reverse rim. We have not encountered any examples appreciably finer than this coin, which is tied with the other EF-40 in this sale for the finest graded at PCGS.
PCGS# 687737.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Henry Chapman's sale of the Andrew C. Zabriskie Collection, June 1909, lot 55; Hillyer Ryder; F.C.C. Boyd; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part I, October 2003, lot 69; Jim LaSarre, December 2009.
Estimate: $2500
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Bidding
| Price realized | 1'450 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 2'500 USD |
