1694 Token Elephant, Thin Planchet, BN MS(PCGS#58)

1694 Token Elephant, Thin Planchet, BN MS (PCGS#58)

The January 2013 Americana Sale

拍卖行: Stack's Bowers

批号: 11029

等级: MS63

价格: 146,420

详细说明: Undated (Circa 1694) London Elephant Token. Hodder 2-B, W-12040. GOD PRESERVE LONDON. Thin Planchet. MS-63 BN (PCGS). 112.7 grains. The offered coin is one of the great highlights among Elephant tokens in the Craige Collection. The variety is fascinating, what with its undertype identifiable and the grade is memorable. Once again, the word opportunity comes to the fore. Smooth rose-brown surfaces exhibit boldly rendered design elements on nearly mark-free surfaces. Reverse die with dagger in upper left quadrant and no diagonals on the shield. Overstruck; faint letters OLO can be seen at the 12 o'clock position on the obverse, tight to the rim but plain as day when examined at length. Breen's Encyclopedia (1988) number 188 notes that some thin planchet Elephant tokens were overstruck on CAROLVS A CAROLO halfpenny patterns, and the visible undertype lettering on the present host coin is compatible with just such an issue. One of just four examples currently known, with the most recent offering a VF specimen sold by us (ANR) in August 2006. In that sale, the cataloger noted: "Breen cites only two examples that were known to him: the Mint State specimen in the 60th New Netherlands sale and a high-grade example that was in the 1982 sale of the Robison Collection. In the Norweb catalogue, Michael Hodder reiterated that just two overstruck specimens were known and recent conversations indicate that he knows of no others." The present piece is the equal to the NN:60 coin, and tied for finest known, followed by the Robison coin and the ANR piece. The first seen by the present writer (FVV), making for an exciting discovery on a chilly afternoon immersed in cataloging fascinating coins. As for the coin in general, the surfaces are as near to immaculate as ever will be found, with no immediately visible marks&nbs

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