(1832) Token HT-1, Andrew Jackson, BN MS(PCGS#77083)

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

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

224

等级

XF45BN

价格

40,657

详细说明

Classic HT-1 Andrew Jackson Undated (1832) Andrew Jackson. HT-1, Low-1, W-09-10a, DeWitt-AJACK 1832-1. Rarity-6. Copper. Reeded Edge. 27 mm. EF-45 (PCGS). Medal alignment. This handsome piece displays dominant golden-brown patina with intermingled glint-gray highlights around the peripheries. The obverse is well centered with a sharp strike, and only light rub to the high points of Jackson's portrait. The reverse is bold to sharp over all design elements, although the strike on that side is drawn to 1 o'clock with thin denticulation along the upper right border. There are no marks of consequence, although a few peripheral carbon spots are noted, the most prominent of which is on the reverse at the letters ST in MUST. The cataloger of the example in the our (Stack's) Dice-Hicks Collection sale, July 2008, offered the following historical commentary: "Low-1 in its several varieties heralds the Hard Times token series and is probably the reason that the year 1832, the putative date of issue, was selected. This token is generally associated with Jackson's political campaign of that year. Once Jackson achieved victory, it was a no holds barred 'war' against the Bank of the United States, a scenario played out on later varieties of Hard Times tokens as well. "The die varieties of Low-1 were discussed by Carl Wurtzbach in The Numismatist, March 1910, the so-called Small Head, Aged Head, and Scowling Head. Wesley A. Cox has shown by die link evidence that these issues were created by the shop of Wright & Bale, not, as has sometimes been thought, by Robert Lovett, Sr." Provenance: From Presidential Coin and Antique Company, Inc.'s sale of the Charles Litman Collection of Hard Times Tokens, December 2003, lot 1; our Baltimore Auction of March 2014, lot 124. Click here for certification details from PCGS.