(1720) Medal Betts-129 Silver Skill and Bad Luck MS(PCGS#922010)
(1720) Medal Betts-129 Silver Skill and Bad Luck MS (PCGS#922010)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2010
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 36,700
- 详细说明
- Undated (1720) John Law / Through Skill All is Won Medal. Betts-129, Adams-26. Silver. AU-58 (PCGS). 35.7 mm. Flashy luster persists over untoned bright silver surfaces. A significant number of abrasions and tiny marks are seen in the fields, but the peripheries remain reflective. Betts described this in a smaller size (see Ford XIII:606) but not this size; Ford had two in this size as well. This piece is actually a bit broader than Ford's pieces, with denticles nearly complete around both sides and a significant unstruck area outside the denticles at the right side of the obverse. The meaning of the design is somewhat obscure: a standing man holding a money bag with a legend meaning "through skill all things are won" combined with a mournful seated woman and the legend "by bad things all things are lost." This is the only example we record on the market since our 2006 Ford sale, selling in the 2014 offering of the Adams Collection. Provenance: From the Skyler Liechty Collection. Earlier ex John J. Ford, Jr. February 1987; John Adams Collection; Heritage's FUN Signature Auction of January 2014, lot 3033. Collector envelope with attribution and provenance notes included. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.