(1836) Token HT-325 Copper Squire & Merritt NY, BN MS(PCGS#77688)
(1836) Token HT-325 Copper Squire & Merritt NY, BN MS (PCGS#77688)
August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 383
- 等级
- AU55BN
- 价格
- 2,202
- 详细说明
- New York--New York. Undated (1836) Squire & Merritt. HT-325, Low-283, W-NY-960-20a Dies 3-B. Rarity-4. Copper. Reeded Edge. Thin Planchet. 27 mm. AU-55 (PCGS). Medal alignment. A fairly even deep copper and steely-brown example with a boldly incused 175 on the obverse above SOUTH STT., this being the address of Squire & Merritt from circa 1831 to 1837. Satiny and hard surfaces with plenty of gloss. Reverse impression trivially off center, yet with full denticulation, the obverse is nicely centered. Sharply defined overall with just a bit of light roughness to the reverse, no marks of consequence on either side. This is the reeded edge variant from the Squire & Merritt 3-B dies most often encountered in today's market, although HT-325 is still scarce in an absolute sense. The Dice-Hicks specimen offered here is nearly as nice as the primary Ford piece, an NGC AU-58 BN as of our August 2013 offering in the Ford XXIII sale. Provenance: Ex Chet Krause Collection, via Rossa & Tanenbaum and Presidential Coin and Antique Company, Inc.; our (Stack's) sale of the Collections of James E. Dice & M. Lamar Hicks, July 2008, lot 3290; Stephen L. Tanenbaum estate, October 24, 2013; Steve Hayden, 2013. Collector tag with attribution and provenance notes included. Click here for certification details from PCGS.