 1722 Rosa Americana Penny. GEORGIVS/VTILE DVLCI. Br. 111. Gem Proof. Copper. 146.4 gns. Wide 28.2 mm. planchet. An absolutely astonishing coin. Both sides are a nice, rich medium brown color with areas of still fiery mint red around parts of the peripheries of each. The surfaces are smooth and satiny almost like those of a 19th c. American Proof Seated Dollar. The fields are lightly reflective and the central devices are sharply struck. There is nary a mark on the coin and it must look much as it did the day it was struck. The finer of only two known in copper and one of just four 1722 pennies with Latinate V's in GEORGIVS on the obverse and VTILE DVLCI on the back. Mr. Ford's collection includes all four of the known 1722 pennies with this spelling style.
Ex Ellsworth Collection, Garrett Collection (Bowers & Ruddy, October 1, 1980, lot 1240).
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