(1694) Token Elephant - Sword in 2nd Quadrant
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Auction Record
- Price realized
- $18,260
- Sold
- Grade
- VF25
- Auction house
- Bowers & Merena
Description
This circa 1694 Elephant Token features the distinctive "Sword in 2nd Quadrant" variety on the reverse, where a sword-like device appears in the second quadrant of the design field. 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-). On this reverse the sword stands in the upper right (second) quarter of the London shield instead of the upper left, and NGC calls the variety Sword Right. Cataloged as PCGS #64.
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