1773 VA 1/2P Period, RB MS (PCGS#241)
Spring 2022 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1182
- 等级
- MS64RB
- 价格
- 8,406
- 详细说明
- 1773 Virginia Halfpenny. Newman 25-M, W-1580. Rarity-2. Period After GEORGIVS, 7 Harp Strings. MS-64 RB (PCGS).
This is a lovely Virginia halfpenny. The surfaces are predominantly lustrous with vivid bright pinkish-rose color and minimal glossy-brown toning. Both sides also reveal modest semi-reflectivity in the fields under a light. Boldly struck and very attractive, there is not much separating this premium quality example from a full Gem grade. The Virginia halfpennies were authorized by the Crown and served their purpose in the Colony of Virginia just prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Most Mint State survivors are from the Colonel Mendes I. Cohen Hoard, obtained by Cohen, a numismatist, probably the late 1860s or the early 1870s. The hoard contained in excess of 2,000 pieces by contemporary accounts, many of which were dispersed by Cohen over the years. Most of today's Uncirculated Virginia halfpennies probably originated with the Cohen hoard, to which current numismatists owe a great debt.
PCGS# 241. NGC ID: 2ATK.
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