Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2016 ANA Auction - Sess. A-C 10-12 August 2016
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ISLE OF MAN. Pattern 1/2 Penny (Sixpence?), 1723. James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1702-36). PCGS SP-45 Secure Holder.
KM-Pn10; Prid-26; S-unlisted; C-MPTN-070var. EXTREMELY RARE. By William Wood. Struck in silver. Engrailed edge. "SANS CHANGER" Stanley crest: Eagle and child atop cap of Maintenance; Reverse: "QVOCVNQVE GESSERIS STABIT" Triune (type 2). Deeply toned. An intriguing specimen demanding further research. Certain to appeal to advanced numismatists, we expect spirited bidding activity as the lot reaches the auction podium. PCGS SP-45 Secure Holder.
Alan Kelly writes: 'The Manx issues of 1721-5 are not patterns, but an unofficial coinage struck by Richard Maguire, a Dublin banker, and Josiah Poole, a wealthy Liverpool merchant, who leased the customs of the Isle of Man from the Earl of Derby, in March, 1721, for the sum of £1,050 a year. It is my opinion that the coins were manufactured locally, almost certainly at Ballasalla by the Wilks family, who later assisted Samuel Topping and Amos Dyall with the manufacture of the 1733 coinage in Castle Rushen.
'Besides not being patterns I believe I have enough evidence to say that these silver coins struck from the halfpenny dies are in fact sixpences. Likewise the coins struck in silver from the penny dies are shillings. Manx coinage was never weight related so why pay for extra dies? The dies themselves were probably acquired by Poole and Maguire from William Wood, but there isn't any evidence to support that, other than Maguire's Irish connection.'
Estimate: $4000.00- $6000.00
KM-Pn10; Prid-26; S-unlisted; C-MPTN-070var. EXTREMELY RARE. By William Wood. Struck in silver. Engrailed edge. "SANS CHANGER" Stanley crest: Eagle and child atop cap of Maintenance; Reverse: "QVOCVNQVE GESSERIS STABIT" Triune (type 2). Deeply toned. An intriguing specimen demanding further research. Certain to appeal to advanced numismatists, we expect spirited bidding activity as the lot reaches the auction podium. PCGS SP-45 Secure Holder.
Alan Kelly writes: 'The Manx issues of 1721-5 are not patterns, but an unofficial coinage struck by Richard Maguire, a Dublin banker, and Josiah Poole, a wealthy Liverpool merchant, who leased the customs of the Isle of Man from the Earl of Derby, in March, 1721, for the sum of £1,050 a year. It is my opinion that the coins were manufactured locally, almost certainly at Ballasalla by the Wilks family, who later assisted Samuel Topping and Amos Dyall with the manufacture of the 1733 coinage in Castle Rushen.
'Besides not being patterns I believe I have enough evidence to say that these silver coins struck from the halfpenny dies are in fact sixpences. Likewise the coins struck in silver from the penny dies are shillings. Manx coinage was never weight related so why pay for extra dies? The dies themselves were probably acquired by Poole and Maguire from William Wood, but there isn't any evidence to support that, other than Maguire's Irish connection.'
Estimate: $4000.00- $6000.00