August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Exciting 1723 Wood's Hibernia Farthing in Silver
1723 Wood's Hibernia Farthing. Martin 3.2-Bc.10, W-12500. Rarity-5. Silver. MS-63 (PCGS).
70.6 grains. A highly desirable silver example of the type, these likely struck as presentation or pattern pieces for the coinage. Wood's Hibernia farthings in this metallic composition were once considered to be incredibly rare, and Eric P. Newman had marked his own as "probably unique" at some point in the early 20th century. However, a small hoard of about two dozen pieces came out of hiding in England during the late 1950s. First brought to light by Baldwin's of London, the pieces were housed in a silver tube with silver halfpenny ends; the group had descended directly from the Wood family into the hands of Albert Baldwin, whose firm then dispersed the lot. We later offered the silver tube with silver halfpenny ends in our (Stack's) September 2009 Americana Auction. The present example, likely from that source, is surely one of the nicest that the discerning collector will encounter. It is sharply struck with intense satin to semi-reflective luster and beautiful iridescent toning in gently mottled golden-olive, champagne-pink and powder blue.
PCGS# 921462. BASE PCGS# 179. NGC ID: F7HP.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Robert A. Vlack, March 18, 2000. The plate coin for both the obverse and reverse dies in the 2007 Martin reference on Wood's Hibernia coinage, pp. 56 and 102, respectively.
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| Price realized | 4'300 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 7'500 USD |
