August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Very Rare HT-129 Token
The Dice-Hicks Specimen
LOUISIANA. New Orleans. 1836 Walton, Walker & Co. HT-129, Low-106, W-LA-260-10b. Rarity-7. Brass. Plain Edge. AU-55 (NGC).
33.7 mm. Medallic alignment. Nice, rich brassy-gold, with some light reflectivity in the fields. No rim problems. Well struck, everything fully legible. Extremely rare: one of just a handful known and a token missing from almost all of the great Hard Times tokens collections ever auctioned. Prior to our (Stack's) Dice-Hicks sale, this specimen had been sold publicly only twice within a half century. This token was part of the special display of highlights from the Dice-Hicks Collection during the 2008 Long Beach, Baltimore and Phoenix ANA National Money Show numismatic conventions.
Ex Tilden, Dupont and Miller Collections; Ken Rendell's Fixed Price List, September 1958; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part IV, June 2004, lot 187; our (Stack's) sale of the Collections of James E. Dice & M. Lamar Hicks, July 2008, lot 3125; our September 2013 Philadelphia Auction, lot 101. The plate token for the type in the 2015 Whitman reference on Hard Times tokens, p. 133.
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| Price realized | 22'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 5'000 USD |
