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McCarthy Penny

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:875.00 CAD Estimated At:1,750.00 - 2,000.00 CAD
McCarthy Penny
SOLD
1,600.00CAD+ (320.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2015 May 28 @ 19:51UTC-4 : AST/EDT
The Cataloguers have taken every reasonable measure to ensure that all the lots are as described by Geoffrey Bell Auctions. Many of the lots are third party graded by PCGS, PMG, ICCS - We feel these are the most recognized grading companies in the industry.
McCarthy Penny McCarthy Penny, CH PE-2, the letters P.E.I incuse on an otherwise blank planchet, copper. There is no justification for attributing this piece to Peter McCausland (also spelled MacAusland, or McAuslane), as has usually been the case. Everything, including its likely date of production about 1840, and the identical features with the unique DMC / P.E.I piece, point to Dennis McCarthy of Charlottetown as the issuer. McCarthy's Charlottetown tinsmith shop was located at the north-west corner of Kent and Great George Streets (the latter street now called University Avenue). This example is rough, with some corrosion and some light verdigris, perhaps from having been buried. It grades VG for the issue and weighs 8.3gms. Ex Tom Rogers; ex Jeffrey Hoare sale October 1999, lot 587.


Note this lot is part of the Geoffrey Bell Collection.