1835 Token HT-216 Copper Walsh's General Store, BN MS(PCGS#77749)

August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

322

等级

AU Details

价格

318

详细说明

New York--Lansingburgh. 1835 Walsh's General Store. HT-216, Low-99, W-NY-150-10a. Rarity-1. Copper. Plain Edge. 28.5 mm. AU Details--Scratch (PCGS). Medal alignment. Dominant medium brown patina with a few swirls of reddish-rose and, in the protected areas around some design elements, faded champagne-gold color. The PCGS qualifier concerns a faint pin scratch in the lower obverse field. The term used on the reverse of the token may have come from the title of a 17th century English play, Speed the Plough, by Thomas Morton. It has earlier use as well, as in an observance called Plow Monday in England in the 14th century, with a poem beginning "God speed the plow." By 1835 the term was well-known. Storekeeper Alexander Walsh admired Lafayette and may have met him in 1824 when the French hero of the American Revolution was given a special reception in Troy. The plan was for Lafayette to go by boat from Albany across the Hudson River and north to Troy, then by land to Lansingburgh and Waterford, then to Cohoose Falls to board a boat. However, the ceremony ran late into the day and he was not able to go there. Instead he boarded a boat and returned to Albany. Lafayette was featured on certain of Walsh's 1835-dated tokens. In 1839 Henry Clay called upon Walsh in Lansingburgh. Alexander Walsh retired in 1846 and died on August 3, 1849 Provenance: Ex D.H. Clarke, February 23, 1974; Stephen L. Tanenbaum estate, November 2013. Collector tag with attribution and provenance notes included. Click here for certification details from PCGS.