August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Undated (ca. 1652-1674) St. Patrick Farthing. Martin 1d.1-Ba.11, W-11520. Rarity-6+. Silver. Nothing Below King. VF-25 (PCGS).
113.4 grains. Medallic die alignment. Attractive pearl gray and silver-olive surfaces with good gloss. The obverse is trivially off center to 11 o'clock, affecting only the denticulation, the reverse is better centered, and all major design elements on both sides remain bold. A moderate-size planchet void parallels King David's back on the obverse, another smaller one is seen in the upper reverse field under the letter T in QVIESCAT, and there is also a thin horizontal flan flaw in the right obverse field. All of these features are as made and, given that there are no significant marks or other post-production blemishes, these flan flaws were obviously misidentified when this coin was certified VF Details--Damaged by NCS sometime prior to its offering in Heritage's September 2005 sale. Martin 1d.1-Ba.11 is the most available of the 15 St. Patrick farthing die varieties known in silver, but still rare in absolute sense with just a few dozen examples extant. Martin estimates that no more than 100 silver St. Patrick farthings exist in total.
PCGS# 902860. BASE PCGS# 45. NGC ID: 2U3S.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Superior's session of Auction '82, August 1982, lot 1006; Heritage's sale of the Oak Collection of American Colonial Coinage, September 2005 Long Beach Signature Auction, lot 7; Jim LaSarre, December 21, 2009.
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| Price realized | 4'800 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 6'000 USD |
