1760 1/2 P Voce Populi - P Below Half Penny
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- Price realized
- $11,500
- Sold
- Grade
- MS64
- Auction house
- Heritage Auctions
Description
This 1760 Voce Populi Halfpenny features a small letter P positioned below the bust on the obverse, one of the identifying characteristics that distinguishes this variety from the "No P," "P at Face," and other types in the series. The Voce Populi halfpence and farthings are unofficial Dublin coppers dated 1760, made during a shortage of small change and traditionally credited to the button maker John Roche, although others probably made them too. The obverse has a laureate bust with VOCE POPULI and the reverse Hibernia seated with a harp and the date. The halfpence are numbered by Nelson and by Zelinka's die study, and nobody has explained the P on some dies. Mossman notes that they are counted as American colonial pieces because of chance finds, not records of shipment. Stack's Bowers catalogues one P below bust die as Nelson-13 (Zelinka 14-M, W-13960). Cataloged as PCGS #268.
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