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Categories • Stack's May 2005 New York → John J. Ford, Jr. Collection: Part 9 → Rosa Americana Coinage → 1723 Patterns, Trials and Off Metal Strikes |
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1723 Rosa Americana off metal Halfpenny. Crowned rose. GRATIA:/1723:. Br.139
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VF |
$11,000.00
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Taxay C74. Near Very Fine. Struck in silver. 70.5 gns. Plain edge. Light silver gray in the fields, darker gray around the peripheries. Light scratches both sides, graffito in the left reverse field (letter I). Unique with this punctuation and so described by both Breen and Taxay. None in either the Garrett or Norweb sales and the only one the cataloguer has recorded. Other, equally... more |
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| 174 |
1723 Rosa Americana off metal Halfpenny. Crowned rose. GRATIA
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CH AU |
$24,000.00
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/no stop after 1723. Br.142, Taxay C76. Choice About Uncirculated. Struck in silver. 72.4 gns. Plain edge. A lovely piece with rich silver gray color over semi reflective fields. Very sharply struck and nearly perfectly centered on both sides. Superior quality suggestive of careful control while striking led the Roper cataloguer to wonder if this might have begun its life as a proof. Extremely... more |
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| 175 |
1723 Rosa Americana Trial Penny. Br.125, plate coin
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VG to F |
$3,250.00
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this piece mentioned as Taxay C72. Very Good to Fine. Brassy copper (i.e., high zinc copper, not Bath metal). 198.6 gns. Jumbo 31.7 mm. planchet diameter. Perhaps struck on a lightweight twopenny flan. Pale orange brown in color on fairly rough surfaces. Broad unstruck border beyond the edges of both dies. Some edge dings but so what? Unique, no other rumored (Crosby mentions having... more |
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| 176 |
1723 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. Cross on reverse. Nelson-unlisted
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VERY CH UNC |
$22,000.00
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Crosby-unlisted, Br.91, Taxay C.70. Very Choice Uncirculated. Bath metal. 223.9 gns. Lovely, rich golden brown in color on both sides. Surfaces smooth, hard, essentially free from granularity and all but the most trivial marks. The obverse has the older head of George I facing left with MAG:BRI:FRA: in his titulature. The reverse is very distinctive and stands out at arm's length as a new type in... more |
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| 177 |
1723 Rosa Americana Trial Twopence. Br.93. Uncirculated. Copper
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UNC |
$12,000.00
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143.6 gns. Broad 30.5 mm. planchet. Thin 1.2 - 1.4 mm. flan. Lovely, light golden brown and pale mahogany with fading traces of original lustre around the protected areas. Sharply struck and perfectly centered on both sides. Probably unique with no other rumored since the last time this was offered for sale. Breen reports the variety as only extremely rare but lists just this one and... more |
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1723 Rosa Americana Twopence Obverse Trial. Stop after REX. Br.92
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AU |
$5,000.00
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(obverse type). Reverse with enigmatic ''S/27'' countermark. About Uncirculated. Bath metal. 169.0 gns. Constricted 28.9 mm. planchet. 1.9 - 2.0 mm. thick. Dark brown obverse, reverse somewhat lighter. Rounded and atypical edge. Short, high ring when struck. Unique and unpublished. When Mr. Ford thought about buying this piece he wrote to the seller, Bob White, on February 27, 1975:
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