 1724 Rosa Americana Pattern Twopence. M.B.FRA. Br.102. Choice Uncirculated. Bath metal. 179.0 gns. 31.6 mm. Magnificent quality. The fields on both sides are a deep olive brown while around the peripheries are traces of original golden surface lustre. The strike was sharp and all the design details show to full effect. There are some light hairlines on the obverse and the fields have some minor pitting. Extremely rare: the cataloguer has records of only four of these including: this; Roper:94 (Bath metal); Merkin (11/1968):34 (Bath metal); next lot (Bath metal). The various 1724 twopenny titulature variants (MA.B.FRA, M.B.FRA, and MB FRA) are probably not really patterns.
Ex Virgil Brand Collection via New Netherlands Coin Company, date unrecorded.
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