 1723 Rosa Americana off metal Halfpenny. Crowned rose. GRATIA. /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 rare: the cataloguer knows of only two of these with this punctuation: this; one ex Nelson collection at 66 gns.
Ex Jim King (found in Great Britain) to Richard Picker at the 1971 ANA convention; John L. Roper Collection (Stack's, December 8, 1983, lot 92).
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