(1829-33) Token HT-230 Brass John Barker NY MS(PCGS#77444)
(1829-33) Token HT-230 Brass John Barker NY MS (PCGS#77444)
August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 327
- 等级
- AU55
- 价格
- 33,881
- 详细说明
- New York--New York. Undated (1829-1833) John Barker. HT-230, Low-338, W-NY-260-10b, Musante GW-124, Baker-511. Rarity-7. Brass. Plain Edge. 19 mm. AU-55 (PCGS). Medal alignment. Exceptional quality for this scarce and conditionally challenging HT number. Smooth and satiny surfaces display a blend of antique brass and golden-brown. Sharply defined with softness of detail confined to the high points of Washington's bust and a few of the surrounding leaves in the center of the obverse. Free of even trivial blemishes, and a delight to behold. This elusive variety was missing from Dice-Hicks, among other Hard Times token collections. While our Ford XXIII Sale of August 2013 brought an unprecedented three examples to market, the finest therein was an NGC EF-45. (The other two Ford pieces were EF Details with impairments.) The present example is the Bowers plate token, described as the "highest grade known" in the author's 2015 Guide Book of Hard Times Tokens. Provenance: Ex Glenn Firestone, June 9, 1997; Stephen L. Tanenbaum estate, November 2013. The plate token for the variety in the 2015 Whitman Guide Book of Hard Times Tokensby Q. David Bowers. Collector tag with attribution and provenance notes included. Click here for certification details from PCGS.