 1724 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. MA.B. FRA. Br.101, Taxay C78. 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-'' below the bust, the reverse with a bold 'VIII.JVNE-'' in the left field.
Ex Murdoch Collection:438 (Sotheby's, 1903), Plate IV, to Spink & Son, Ltd. at 25 pounds 10 shillings for Virgil Brand, Brand inventory 39615; offered by Horace Louis Philip Brand in The Numismatist (May, 1953, p.522); New Netherlands Coin Company privately on October 8, 1956; Norweb Collection (Bowers & Merena, March 24, 1988, lot 2443).
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