1694 Token Elephant - Proprieters God Preserve Carolina
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $43,200
- Sold
- Grade
- MS63BN
- Auction house
- Stack's Bowers
Description
This 1694 Elephant token has the reverse legend GOD PRESERVE CAROLINA AND THE LORDS PROPRIETERS, with PROPRIETERS spelled with an E. The elephant tokens are English copper pieces named for the elephant on the obverse. The London pieces are undated and placed about 1694, while the versions for Carolina and New England carry the date 1694 in the reverse legend. Michael Hodder numbered the dies in the 1987 Norweb sale catalogue, and his numbers are cited with those of Breen and the Whitman encyclopedia (W-). This is Hodder 1-E (Betts-78, W-12100), with the reverse spelled PROPRIETERS; the UNC Wilson Library notes that this spelling came first and the die was later corrected. Cataloged as PCGS #70.
Rarity Notes
R-7 (Heritage)
Cross References
Hodder 1-E; Betts-78; W-12100
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