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Categories • Stack's September 2006 → U. S. Coins → U. S. Colonial Coins → Contemporary Counterfeit British Halfpence |
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Lot # |
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Hammer Price |
195 |
1771 Contemporary Counterfeit British Halfpenny. Anton-Kesse 134
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EF |
$220.00 |
87.2 gns. Extremely Fine, or finer. Due to the thinness of the planchet stock, there was not enough metal to fill the recesses of the die, creating the weakly defined areas in George's bust and Britannia's figure and allowing the rough virgin planchet surface to show through in those areas. Glossy, deep chestnut brown surfaces are quite attractive, but for a minor area of verdigris at... more |
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196 |
1771 Contemporary Counterfeit British Halfpenny
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F |
$90.00 |
91.0 gns. Fine. Struck a bit off-center and featuring glossy brown surfaces and some ancient scratches. Here is an interesting example of a type that would have been produced in large quantities in the mother country and then shipped in large numbers to the Colonies and to early Federal America for circulation. |
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197 |
1781 Contemporary Counterfeit British Halfpenny. Newman 41-81B (?)
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G to VG |
$300.00 |
114.1 gns. Good to Very Good. A lot of research has been done on these contemporary counterfeit British halfpence since Walter Breen catalogued this coin in 1975 as ''Not in Vlack, not in Taxay...First ever auctioned...only the second we have actually handled....'' Eric Newman made a case for the British manufacture and American circulation of the 1781 and 1785 dated contemporary struck counterfeit... more |
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