1722 Rosa Americana Halfpenny. Martin 2.1-B.1, W-1218. Rarity-4. D.G. REX / ROSA AMERI. UTILI DULCI. MS-62 (PCGS).There is an exceptional amount of vivid color here for an early American colonial coin - enough, even, for the eye appeal alone to suggest a higher Mint State grade. The viewer is treated to a base of soft medium rose color overall with an intermingling of pale gold, champagne-apricot and light gray shades. The strike is ideally centered with crisp border denticulation framing razor sharp to full design elements. Smooth in hand with no troublesome marks or other post-production blemishes, accuracy alone compels us to mention a few shallow planchet striations (as made) on the reverse. These are faint and well concealed within the border denticulation and the rose above and below the digits 22 in the date. This is a single die marriage <em>Guide Book</em> variety of the issue, and this superior piece is in the same grade as the Sydney F. Martin specimen that realized $4,080 as lot 1156 in our Winter 2022 Auction.PCGS# 101.