1773 Virginia Halfpenny. Newman 20-X, W-1670. Rarity-3. Period After GEORGIVS, 8 Harp Strings. MS-64 RB (PCGS).123.6 grains. A lovely red and brown specimen with more than half its mint red remaining. Possesses a lustrous, original, and well balanced appearance with no marks or spots of any real consequence. Well above average eye appeal and desirable for its provenance and status as a Newman plate coin.PCGS# 913255.From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex F.C.C. Boyd; our (Stacks) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part VII, January 2005, lot 110; Lawrence R. Stack Collection, November 2006. Reverse plated in Eric Newmans Coinage for Colonial Virginia, ANS 1956, plate V.
