1783 Chalmers Shilling - Rings
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Auction Record
- Price realized
- $135,125
- Sold
- Grade
- XF40
- Auction house
- Heritage Auctions
Description
The 1783 Chalmers Shilling - Rings is filed under John Chalmers Coins in the Post-1776 Private and Regional Issues (1778-1820) series. John Chalmers, a goldsmith of Annapolis, Maryland, struck silver shillings, sixpences and threepences dated 1783. Crosby quotes the traveller Johann David Schöpf, who wrote that the goldsmith coined on his own account and took in cut pieces of Spanish dollars in exchange; Crosby found no proof that the government had consented. The common shillings show clasped hands in a wreath and, on the reverse, a serpent above a bar with two doves holding a branch below; the sixpence has a star in a wreath and a cross, and the threepence clasped hands and a branch in a wreath. Crosby describes this shilling as supposed to be unique: a chain of twelve rings with a thirteenth linked to the lower three, a staff with a liberty cap and an eye, and stars in the rings, with the obverse legend EQUAL TO ONE SHI faintly legible. PCGS lists it as #597.
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