(1659) MD 1S Lord Baltimore MS(PCGS#34)
(1659) MD 1S Lord Baltimore MS (PCGS#34)
October 2018 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 7015
- 等级
- XF40
- 价格
- 79,398
- 详细说明
- Historic (1659) Maryland Lord Baltimore Shilling Undated (1659) Maryland Lord Baltimore shilling. Hodder 1-A, W-1080. Large Bust. EF-40 (PCGS). 71.8 grains. A highly attractive example of this rare 17th century type. A well struck portrait and finely defined shield rise from glossy antique gray surfaces. A scattering of darker toning and old encrustation around the peripheries lends a look of pleasant originality, and the fields retain faint golden iridescence acquired over many decades in collector care. The centering is close to ideal, with a nearly full frame of denticles around the obverse and about half present on the reverse, bold on the left side. A natural lamination is present in the left obverse field, mostly confined to the space between MAR and the chin, and the obverse die shows its usual bulge in the upper left field. The surfaces are particularly free of marks and absent of hairlines, and examination finds only a trivially short scratch between LT of MULTIPLICAMINI on the reverse. This lightly circulated piece appears to have done its service in the commerce of early Maryland, at that time largely confined to the tobacco plantations along the waterways that fed into the Chesapeake. A handsome example. Provenance: From the Archangel Collection. Earlier, from Stack's sale of May 1975, lot 446. PCGS Population: 6; 25 finer (MS-61 finest). PCGS# 34.