 1724/3 Rosa Americana Pattern Penny. GEORGIUS.D.GRATIA.REX. Br.126. 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. Extremely rare: the cataloguer has records of only four of these including: this; Norweb:2442; 18th ed. Standard Catalogue plate coin (untraced); Nelson 18 listed at 120 gns. (untraced).
Ex Murdoch:440 to Spink & Son, Ltd. for Virgil Brand; Brand Collection II (Bowers & Merena, June 18, 1984, lot 949).
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