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CICF Signature Sale 3032 10-12 April 2014
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Newfoundland. Victoria Pattern Specimen 10 Cents 1865, London mint, NF-unlisted, SP64 PCGS. Plain Edge - Coin Alignment. A deeply reflective near-Gem with light frost atop the devices that creates a mild cameo for the viewer. Tone is limited to soft golden hues at the edges and traces of faintly milky color that drifts into the centers. Close inspection shows some light handling that mixes with die polish lines (as made) and two tiny marks, one on each side, neither of which upset the unaided yet. Once cataloged as pattern NF-9 in the Norweb Collection, but mistakenly so, as the present example clearly displays the thick reverse arches of the adopted design instead of the thin ones of the pattern type. The design also differs from the adopted type on the obverse with a missing period after NEWFOUNDLAND (cataloged as portrait ND2 - supposedly not introduced until 1870 - in Charlton). Given this pairing, and the absence of this notation in any reference work on Canada that we have seen, we must suggest that the present piece is actually an uncataloged pattern that has yet to be properly identified as such until now. To have avoided such identification, it must be considered unique, or very nearly so. Important as a discovery-piece and a coin that will surely be celebrated by the Canadian specialist!Ex: Farouk Collection (Sotheby's 1954); Norweb Collection (B&M 11/96 - Lot 737).From The Prager Collection of Canadian Specimen Coins
Estimate: 8000-10000 USD
Newfoundland. Victoria Pattern Specimen 10 Cents 1865, London mint, NF-unlisted, SP64 PCGS. Plain Edge - Coin Alignment. A deeply reflective near-Gem with light frost atop the devices that creates a mild cameo for the viewer. Tone is limited to soft golden hues at the edges and traces of faintly milky color that drifts into the centers. Close inspection shows some light handling that mixes with die polish lines (as made) and two tiny marks, one on each side, neither of which upset the unaided yet. Once cataloged as pattern NF-9 in the Norweb Collection, but mistakenly so, as the present example clearly displays the thick reverse arches of the adopted design instead of the thin ones of the pattern type. The design also differs from the adopted type on the obverse with a missing period after NEWFOUNDLAND (cataloged as portrait ND2 - supposedly not introduced until 1870 - in Charlton). Given this pairing, and the absence of this notation in any reference work on Canada that we have seen, we must suggest that the present piece is actually an uncataloged pattern that has yet to be properly identified as such until now. To have avoided such identification, it must be considered unique, or very nearly so. Important as a discovery-piece and a coin that will surely be celebrated by the Canadian specialist!Ex: Farouk Collection (Sotheby's 1954); Norweb Collection (B&M 11/96 - Lot 737).From The Prager Collection of Canadian Specimen Coins
Estimate: 8000-10000 USD