1723 Rosa Americana Twopence. Martin 4.3-F.2, W-1350. Rarity-5. EF-45 (PCGS). Deep brown with a few splashes of lighter brassy color on the obverse. A charming piece with remarkably smooth surfaces aside from a few rim bumps and light planchet flaws at the lower obverse border. Some harmless old dirt, built up around the detail, gives the coin a refreshing originality. Strong detail and really a textbook EF example of the type. PCGS# 905734. From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Spink & Son, Ltd., September 22, 1921; F.C.C. Boyd; our (Stacks) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part IX, May 2005, lot 157; Christopher B. Young, June 2009.
