1837 AE Token HT-295, James Moffet, BN MS(PCGS#77436)

August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

364

等级

MS63BN

价格

2,033

详细说明

New York--New York. Undated (1837) James G. Moffett. HT-295, Low-321, W-NY-800-10a. Rarity-2. Copper. Plain Edge. 28.5 mm. MS-63 BN (PCGS). Medal alignment. This delightful piece retains plenty of vivid pinkish-rose color in the protected areas around the peripheral design elements. Otherwise warmly patinated in medium brown, the surfaces are overall smooth with only a few wispy handling marks and carbon spots. The strike is trivially off center, the lower borders on both sides devoid of denticulation, the eagle softly impressed, but all other features suitably bold. This is the more available of Moffet's two varieties in high grades, and a number of Mint State pieces are known. Attributable by the correct PLURIBUS spelling in the Latin motto on the obverse. The following is from the 1835 edition of Longworth's American Almanack: "Moffet James G. brass founder 121 Prince h 156 Spring." In addition to having been a brass founder, Rulau writes that he struck his own tokens together with those of Samuel Maycock and Henry Crossman. Low claims that Moffet operated a mint in Belleville (presumably distinct from that of Gibbs, Gardner, & Co.), and seemingly suggests that he engraved the dies himself. Theories are aplenty concerning the production of tokens at Belleville, but hard facts are scarce. A certain James G. Moffet is named as exhibition judge in the 1866 Annual Reportof the American Institute of New York. Provenance: Ex Presidential Coin and Antique Company, Inc.'s sale of December 2004, lot 76; our (Stack's) sale of the Collections of James E. Dice & M. Lamar Hicks, July 2008, lot 3326; Stephen L. Tanenbaum estate, November 2013. The plate token for the variety in the 2015 Whitman Guide Book of Hard TimesTokensby Q. David Bowers. Collector tag with (switched) attribution and partial provenance notes included. Click here for certification details from PCGS.