(1751) AR Jeton Betts-385, Franco-American MS (PCGS#619509)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 8076
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 10,486
- 详细说明
- 1751 Franco-American Jeton. Betts-385. Silvered Bronze, 28.5 mm. Standing Indian, No Alligator. AU-58 (PCGS).
107.8 grains. Plain edge. Fully brilliant silvering is intact everywhere but for the central high points of the reverse device. A frosty and attractive piece with only trivial hairlines and very subtle evidence of handling. The standing native figure and her crops, along with a legend that Betts translates as "they increase beneath every constellation," was designed as an inducement to would-be French settlers who might consider farming the fertile lands of Nouvelle France. This is a neat early strike in an unusual and scarce composition.
Provenance: From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Charlton's 1969 CNA sale, August 1969, part of lot 1582; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIII, January 2006, lot 461.
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PCGS# 619509.
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