(ca. 1670) Token New Yorke in America Brass
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- Price realized
- $94,000
- Sold
- Grade
- XF40
- Auction house
- Stack's Bowers
Description
This circa 1670 "NEW YORKE IN AMERICA" token in brass is one of the earliest numismatic items associated with the colony of New York. The NEW YORKE IN AMERICA token is a small undated piece known in brass and in white metal. John Kleeberg read the eagle on a ragged staff as the crest of Francis Lovelace, governor of New York from 1668 to 1673, and the other side as a rebus on his name, which would date the token to those years. He found it lighter than any English farthing struck after 1672 and the lettering the work of an unskilled hand. Crosby knew one brass example, found in 1874 among jetons imported from Europe, and three in lead. Cataloged as PCGS #226.
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