'1771' 1/2P Machin's, Vlack 3-71B, BN MS(PCGS#826939)

November 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

4146

Grade

F12BN

Price

600

Lot Description

1771 Machin's Mills Halfpenny. Vlack 3-71B, W-7680. Rarity-5. GEORGIVS III, Group I. Fine-12 (PCGS). 112.6 grains. Well-worn but well-centered, showing ideally smooth, chocolate brown surfaces and an absence of distracting marks on both sides. Supremely choice in comparison to the grand majority of Vlack 3-71Bs we have seen. The obverse is in the usually seen spalled and broken state, though the reverse is in its cudless state, the die just beginning to break at the rim to the left of Britannia's head, manifested by the quartet of denticles connected by the break. A finer example at this grade level would be hard to locate. Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. PCGS# 448 and #826939.