1795 Cent Talbot, Allum & Lee Lettered Edge, RB MS(PCGS#641)

Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auktionator

Stack's Bowers

Losnummer

1348

Erhaltungsgrad

MS63RB

Preis

1.586

Losbeschreibung

An above average example that retains considerable deep orange mint color to surfaces that are otherwise toned in rich olive-brown. The strike is sharp throughout to allow full appreciation of this classic design type. A few small spots in the left obverse field combine with overall muting to the finish to explain the Select Mint State grade from PCGS.<p>The partnership of Talbot, Allum & Lee, formed in 1794 and operated only until 1796, was composed of William Talbot, William Allum, and James Lee, who engaged in the India trade in lower Manhattan at 241 Pearl Street. Tokens dated 1794 and 1795, bearing the standing figure of Commerce on the obverse and a fully rigged sailing ship on the reverse, were struck in Birmingham and imported into America. On this side of the Atlantic they were sufficiently plentiful at one time that the Philadelphia Mint gathered examples and cut planchets for half cents from them, such half cent emissions being dated 1795 and 1797. For extensive information see Q. David Bowers, <em>The Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins</em>.