1694 Token Elephant, Thick Planchet, BN MS(PCGS#55)

Spring 2023 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1227

等级

F15BN

价格

33,899

详细说明

Unique 1717 Farthing Overstruck on London Elephant Token 1717 English Farthing Overstruck on Undated (ca. 1694) London Elephant Token. Thick planchet. Hodder 2-B, W-12040, Peck-784. Fine-15 (PCGS). 199.5 grains. A delightful oddball of the sort Syd found irresistible: a unique 1717 English farthing of George I overstruck on a London Elephant token. The shocking difference in the diameter of the two coins makes it clear that this piece was an intentionally produced piece de caprice, with the tiny farthing dies nearly ideally centered on the much larger Elephant token. The surfaces are pleasing brown and steel, problem free except for some battering around the rims. GOD PRESERVE LONDON is all still visible outside of the farthing obverse, though nothing remains visible on the Elephant obverse. An eye-catching one-off, a coin that hyphenates the reigns of Charles II and George I despite a gap of decades. This is a real Syd kind of coin. Provenance: From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex the Major A.W. Foster Collection; Glendining's sale of October 1953, lot 63; published in the 1960 edition of English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958 by C. Wilson Peck as number 784 (attributed to the Foster Collection); our (Stack's) Americana sale, January 2003, lot 1016; Lawrence R. Stack Collection, November 2006. To view supplemental information and all items from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, click here. PCGS# 55. 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.