August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
1694 Carolina Elephant Token. Hodder 2-F, W-12120. Rarity-6. PROPRIETORS, O/E. Fine Details--Environmental Damage (PCGS).
106.6 grains. Dark earthen-brown surfaces with heavy, uniform porosity across both sides. The elephant is clear, however, and the entire legend on the reverse is legible, including a readily evident O/E in PROPRIETORS. Little is known about this token or the circumstances of its production. It is linked, of course, to the London and New England Elephants, but they are even more obscure. It is perhaps making a political commentary in support of the Lords Proprietors, the original group of investors in Carolina, who were engaged in a push-pull relationship with the Crown, which eventually purchased most of their claims and made Carolina a Crown colony in 1729. In any event, all Elephant tokens were probably struck at the Tower Mint in London and used as trade tokens in England. Perhaps two dozen or so Carolina Elephants survive, the bulk of which seem to grade in the Fine-VF range. Regardless of their origin and intent, the Carolina Elephant token has always been an object of great desire and offerings tend to be very infrequent (consignments to Stack's catalogs over the years possibly being an exception!).
PCGS# 73. NGC ID: 2ATW.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Long Island Numismatics (Gary Parietti), January 19, 2002.
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| Price realized | 2'400 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 2'750 USD |
