1723 Rosa Americana Twopence. Martin 4.5-E.13, W-1346. Rarity-5. AU-58 (PCGS). 236.2 grains. A very sharp near-Mint example that has some glossy luster to its surfaces. Dark olive-brown with some undertones of brassy-gold in the legends, more so on the reverse. There is a small collection of scratches under FRA and some light roughness at BRI, otherwise only trivial abrasions and typical planchet porosity. A bold and handsome piece with fine, old provenance. PCGS# 905737. From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Thomas L. Elders sale of the William Belcher, Esq. Collection, October 1919, lot 379; Hillyer Ryder; F.C.C. Boyd; our (Stacks) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part IX, May 2005, lot 160 (there said to also be from Elders May 1920 Miller Sale, lot 1576 but it does not plate-match that coin). Plated in the Martin reference "The Rosa Americana Coinage of William Wood," p. 289, 312.
