(c.1840s) Token HT-380 Copper A. Loomis OH, BN MS(PCGS#77049)

November 2019 Baltimore Colonial Coins and Americana Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

225

等级

AU55BN

价格

5,895

详细说明

Ohio--Cleveland. Undated (1840s) A. Loomis. HT-380, Low-319, W-OH-040-30a. Rarity-6. Copper. Plain Edge. 28.5 mm. AU-55 BN (NGC). Coin alignment. Warm golden-copper patina dominates the in hand appearance, the protected areas around the design elements with bolder rose-brown color. Light verdigris along the upper obverse border, below the eagle's talons, and at the upper left reverse border is noted for accuracy, although there are no marks of consequence. The strike is trivially off center to 12 o'clock on the obverse with scant denticulation from 11 to 1 o'clock. The reverse is better centered, if soft around the border, and both sides retain bold to sharp detail to most major design elements. One of the latter entries in the Hard Times token series, the pieces of Cleveland, Ohio grocer and liquor dealer Anson L. Loomis date to the early to mid 1840s. All types associated with this merchant are scarce to rare, HT-380 typically offered in VF or EF grades, when offered at all. Missing from our August 2019 sale of the Bowers Reference Collection, in fact, the finest HT-380 that we have handled in recent years was the NGC AU-55 BN in our August 2013 Ford XXIII sale. The present example rivals the Ford piece in quality; the Dice-Hicks specimen was graded "only" Extremely Fine in our (Stack's) July 2008 sale. Provenance: From the Aim High Collection. Earlier from Presidential Coin & Antique Co. Inc.'s Auction Eighty-Four, July 2014, lot 63. Lot tag included. Click here for certification details from NGC.