1722/1-H French Colonies Sou, or 9 Deniers. La Rochelle Mint. Martin 3.6-C.4, W-11835. Rarity-3. VF-30 (PCGS). Light golden-tan and steel-brown, lightly cleaned at some point but fairly well retoned with a generally pleasing appearance. Besides a few reverse scratches, the surfaces have very little in the way of marks or roughness and present much smoother than the average 9 deniers. Weakly struck at the lower right obverse affecting the final S in COLONIES and FRANCOISES as well, otherwise bold and well centered. A respectable example of the overdate and scarce as a Martin 3-C die group combination, one of just two die pairs that combine a group 3 obverse (dies with stops between all of the words and différents), with a group C reverse (the 1722/1 overdate dies).<p> PCGS# 905896. From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Jeff Rock Collection, September 2006.
