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Lr. 851 — Louisbourg Captured. 1758. Pinchbeck.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:600.00 CAD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 2,500.00 CAD
Lr. 851 — Louisbourg Captured. 1758. Pinchbeck.
SOLD
1,300.00CAD+ buyer's premium (234.00)
This item SOLD at 2022 Apr 28 @ 18:52UTC-4 : AST/EDT

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McLachlan-373, Betts-403, Breton-38. 40.8mm. 16.7g. Plain edge. Unsigned. Described in its last appearance in 2009 by the Stack’s cataloguer as: “A specimen of remarkable sharpness for this issue, one struck in cheap metal and most often seen well handled. Both obverse and reverse show definitive detail, particularly so in the charming if cartoonish and fantastical representation of Louisbourg by an engraver who'd never seen so much as a sketch of it. The surfaces are mostly glossy chocolate brown but for some reddish tones around devices; the natural color of pinchbeck, the metal in which all specimens of this variety were struck, tends towards gold but can turn this color if cleaned. Some faint old pinscratches are visible in the field.”
Ex: Wayte Raymond estate; John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIV (Stack’s, 5/2006), lot 22; Americana Sale (Stack’s, 9/2009), 6053. Formerly graded AU58 by NGC, with insert included.
From the Michael Joffre Collection of Canadian Historical Medals.