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Lot:20031 Circa 1795 North Wales Halfpenny. Musante GW-51, Baker-34A. Copper. Lettered edge, PAYABLE IN LANCAS

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SBP2019年11月巴尔地摩#A-Washingtoniana集藏

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Circa 1795 North Wales Halfpenny. Musante GW-51, Baker-34A. Copper. Lettered edge, PAYABLE IN LANCASTER, LONDON OR BRISTOL. VF-35 (PCGS).27.4 mm. 143.1 grains. Lovely deep olive brown surfaces with smooth, glossy texture and no imperfections worthy of mention beyond trivial handling marks. Particularly choice, it is struck better than is typical of the common plain edge variant, as the planchet is considerably more substantial. Still, the overall detail is less than it should be for a piece with so little actual wear. The edge lettering equipment slipped on this piece, with the final letters of LANCASTER overlapped with the first two of LONDON. This variety is much rarer than that offered above, with estimates of survivors ranging from one to two-dozen examples. As all seen, this was struck using the same dies that struck the more common variety, but in an advanced state.<p>Baker mentioned this rare variant in <em>Medallic Portraits</em> by pointing to the specimen in the 1883 sale of Sylvester Crosby’s collection, where it was described by Haseltine at “perhaps unique.” In Crosby’s own 1875 reference, he discusses the four-stars reverse type alongside this one as both unique, and both in his own collection. He gives the weight of his lettered edge specimen as 143 grains, virtually identical to our own weight of this piece. We are aware of one earlier sale of a Lettered Edge example, in the 1871 sale of the Dr. Charles Clay Collection, where William Strobridge also called it “probably unique.” Clay’s collection included extensive early American coins and as it was sold just four years before Crosby’s <em>The Early Coins of America</em> was published, it is unthinkable that among such a small community of serious collectors, Crosby would have not examined at least the Clay sale catalog, if not the coins themselves. As such, he would have known of this piece and likewise known it if was different than the one he owned. As he proclaimed the variety unique in 1875 and identified himself as the owner of it, it is almost certain that this specimen was purchased by Baker in the 1883 Crosby sale, and that the provenance can be reliably taken back to 1871. We have expanded the provenance accordingly.Ex Dr. Charles Clay, William Strobridge, December 1871, lot 990; Sylvester Crosby, John Haseltine, June 1883, lot 310; William Spohn Baker Collection, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by bequest, November 15, 1897.

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