1723 Farth Hibernia, Silver SP(PCGS#179)

1723 Farth Hibernia, Silver SP (PCGS#179)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Losbeschreibung: 74.8 grains. This pretty piece exhibits pale pinkish-rose patina on medium gray surfaces, the peripheries further enhanced by hints of olive. There are signs of old cabinet handling here - faint hairlines, some muting to the finish, traces of high point friction on the obverse - but these are consistent with the PCGS-certified grade. No sizeable marks are seen, and there is plenty of eye appeal. Wood's Hibernia farthings in silver were once considered to be incredibly rare, and Eric P. Newman had marked his own as "probably unique" at some point in the early 20th century. However, a small hoard of about two dozen pieces came out of hiding in England during the late 1950s. First brought to light by Baldwin's of London, the pieces were housed in a silver tube with silver halfpenny ends; the group had descended directly from the Wood family into the hands of Albert Baldwin, whose firm then dispersed the lot. Now as then, these off-metal strikings are extremely popular with advanced collectors. We later offered the silver tube with silver halfpenny ends in our (Stack's) September 2009 Americana Sale.