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Categories • Stack's May 2005 New York → John J. Ford, Jr. Collection: Part 9 → Rosa Americana Coinage → 1724 Patterns, Trials and Off Metal Strikes |
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Lot # |
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1724/3 Rosa Americana Pattern Penny. GEORGIUS.D.GRATIA.REX. Br.126
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CH UNC |
$24,000.00
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Choice Uncirculated. Bath metal. 83.1 gns. 26.3 mm. A lovely specimen. The fields are light brown while around the peripheries on both sides the color is brighter gold. The surfaces are somewhat bright. The piece was sharply struck on both sides, just minor weakness in the obverse denticles at the bottom. Short planchet crack at the rim below the curls protrudes into but not beyond the denticles.... more |
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| 183 |
1724/3 Rosa Americana Pattern Penny. GEORGIUS.DEI.GRATIA.REX. No stop after REX
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F to VF |
$11,000.00
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Br.129, Crosby IV, 15 plate coin. Fine to Very Fine. Copper. 125.7 gns. 27.7 mm. Dark brown fields, slightly lighter on the high points and around the rims. Minor surface granularity, trivial marks, rim flaw, none really important. Extremely rare but a difficult variety to assess. From the same reverse die as Norweb:2441 and 2442, Brand II:948 and 949, but a different obverse. In terms... more |
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| 184 |
1724/3 Rosa Americana Pattern Penny. GEORGIUS.DEI.GRATIA.REX. Silver. Br.131
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VF |
$5,500.00
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Taxay C82. Very Fine. 98.2 gns. 26.8 mm. Pale gray centers, deeper color in the surrounding fields, heavier tone at the rims. Traces of pale gold toning visible. Even wear, decent surfaces, clearly a pocket piece that has been carefully kept for centuries. Unique in terms of its metal and its inscription. Engraved in the obverse fields around George I's head in a fine hand is ''E.H.... more |
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| 185 |
1724/3 Rosa Americana Pattern Penny. GEORGIUS.DEI.GRATIA.REX. Br.131, Taxay C82
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CH UNC |
$13,000.00
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plated in AJN (October, 1903). Choice Uncirculated. Silvered Bath metal. 108.6 gns. 26.3 mm. Both sides have nearly full silvering remaining, the color a yellowish silver from the brassy yellow of the underlying Bath metal. The surfaces are sharp and show some faint striations from the rolled flan the piece was struck on. There are clear signs of shift double striking on both sides. Dave Bowers... more |
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| 186 |
1724 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. MA.B.FRA. Br.99, N. II, 10 plate coin
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CH AU |
$22,000.00
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Choice About Uncirculated. Bath metal. 199.6 gns. 32.3 mm. A gorgeous example, with bright olive green color, bright surfaces, and a superbly sharp strike. Minor surface pitting, short scratches along the king's neck. Very rare: the cataloguer has traced only eight of these including: this; Roper:93; Robison:34; Lauder:148; Norweb:2443; another, ex F.C.C. Boyd Collection (sold to Ed Avery in... more |
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| 187 |
1724 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. MA.B. FRA. Br.101, Taxay C78
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VF |
$10,000.00
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Very Fine. Silvered Bath metal. 245.8 gns. 32.4 mm. Struck coin turn. Pale yellow and gray color the silvering almost completely intact on both sides. Good detail remaining for the grade especially in the center of the reverse where the seeds in the rose are clear and mostly separated. Unique engraved specimen believed to have been William Woods' own pocket piece, the obverse with ''-W.W-''... more |
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1724 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. M.B.FRA. Br.102. Choice Uncirculated
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CH UNC |
$22,000.00
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Bath metal. 179.0 gns. 31.6 mm. Magnificent quality. The fields on both sides are a deep olive brown while around the peripheries are traces of original golden surface lustre. The strike was sharp and all the design details show to full effect. There are some light hairlines on the obverse and the fields have some minor pitting. Extremely rare: the cataloguer has records of only four... more |
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| 189 |
1724 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. M.B.FRA. Br.102
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EF |
$11,000.00
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Extremely Fine. Bath metal. 172.0 gns. 31.6 mm. A second and one of just four known. Lighter golden brown on both sides, some evident granularity, obverse fingerprint, reverse verdigris spots. On the obverse the stops between ET HIB and HIB REX are very weak, the stop after REX being entirely faded out. This is a late state of the same obverse seen on the preceding and not a different... more |
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Multidenominational Error Striking. 1724 Twopenny obverse/1723 Halfpenny reverse
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G to VG |
$5,500.00
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Br.105, this coin. Good to Very Good. Bath metal. 125.7 gns. 28.6 x 29.6 mm. Unique. The obverse is the goiter neck George I older head type seen on Breen's ''Prototype Twopence'' while the reverse appears to be a regular issue die for the denomination. The piece was deliberately muled but mis-struck on a poor planchet, so may have been made clandestinely and some time after the patent... more |
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