August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
Part B: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part C: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 1: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 3: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part D: We, 14.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 14.08.2024, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 5: Th, 15.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part E: Fr, 16.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Fr, 16.08.2024, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Sa, 17.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Sa, 17.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Mo, 19.08.2024, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part G: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part H: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 10: We, 21.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part I: We, 21.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 11: Th, 22.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part J: Th, 22.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part K: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 12: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Description
Legendary 1724 Scepter and Trident Pattern Hibernia Halfpenny
Only Six Known The Ford Specimen
1724 Pattern Wood's Hibernia Halfpenny. Martin 9.2-P.1, W-Unlisted. Rarity-7. Neptune or Scepter and Trident Reverse. Proof-40 (PCGS).
127.0 grains. Both sides are deeply toned in gray-brown shades. The surfaces are microgranular, particularly on the reverse. The central details and legends on both sides stand out nicely against the darker background. Well centered with a full beaded border visible on both sides. Good central sharpness still remains, with all the bold design details clear and full. This bust is used on similar Rosa Americana patterns, but it really finds its greatest medallic form on the copper Wood's Hibernia patterns of this obverse type. We believe just six are known: the Norweb coin, the finest in PCGS Proof-65 BN, which realized $45,600 in our November 2023 sale of the Sydney F. Martin Collection; the PCGS Proof-64 BN Garrett-Roper-Archangel coin that brought $90,000 in our October 2018 sale; the present specimen, ex Appleton-Boyd-Ford; the VF-EF Robison coin; and the impounded specimens at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the ANS.
PCGS# 541752.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Charles Steigerwalt's sale of the William Sumner Appleton Collection, May 1907, lot 734; F.C.C. Boyd estate; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part VII, January 2005, lot 94. The plate coin for pattern reverse P.1 in the 2007 Martin reference on Wood's Hibernia coinage, p. 396.
Question about this lot?
Bidding
| Price realized | 8'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 30'000 USD |
