Undated (ca. 1652-1674) St. Patrick Farthing. Martin 3g.5-Fc.20, W-11500. Rarity-7. Copper. Sea Beasts Below King, Masonic Punctuation. Fine-12 (PCGS).

80.8 grains. A generally copper-brown example with glints of olive and autumn-rose. Appreciable softness is confined to the upper right obverse and upper left reverse peripheries, the result of a depression in the planchet in the former area. Glossy with no marks or other blemishes of note. The sizable, irregular splasher in deep brassy-gold covers the upper left of the crown and extends prominently to the upper left. Late reverse die state with a massive internal cud break bisecting St. Patrick's legs that makes it look as though he is standing in a cloud. The cud obscures part of the church and several of the creatures at lower left.

PCGS# 915371. NGC ID: AUAR.

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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Bill Anton; Lawrence R. Stack Collection, November 2006.