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CaptHenway
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Interesting 1920's ad from The Numismatist offering a 1797 Half Cent struck on a Massachusetts Half Cent. Is this piece known today?
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Love the old ads....
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Pictured coin in an (undisclosed) dealer inventory right now. Description says it's struck over a "Talbot Token", vice Mass. half cent. But I don't know how accurate the above advertisement is.
May have no relation to your quest...but is interesting, anyway.
(Current location undisclosed just in case the good Captain actually has interest in acquiring it.)
I have no idea if the old ad attribution was correct of not, but it will give the Half Cent collectors something to look for!
Here's something else of interest, a Texas $2-1/2
Nice!
Just to close my little end of the topic:
Think the coin I posted IS a Talbot Allum & Lee token overstrike, like the one here:
Seems to my eyes that you can see the "NE....ORK" from NEW YORK under the date, and running to the lower left. Can't make out anything on the reverse, or anywhere else.
Interested?
https://www.westcoastcoinsoregon.com/1797-1-2c-1-above-1-liberty-cap-half-cent-type-3-facing-right-small-head-pcgs-g6bn-47451685.html
I'm not against pimping coins for good dealers.
I agree the one you pictured is over a T, A & L. The one I posted the mentioned may be a different piece.
Never know what you're going to run into when looking for stuff.
This is a real neat thread!
Pete
R.I.P. Mr. Brown
Pete
I've not heard of that overstrike either.
A hypothesis: Consider the possibility that a partial undertype legend was the main cause of attribution, namely the letters COMM (or less), apparently thought as part of the COMMON | WEALTH legend of a MA copper. But perhaps not thought of is that the TAL copper has the legend LIBERTY & COMMERCE. So I have a suspicion that it is actually a misattributed TAL overstrike.
Ed. S.
(EJS)
Does the other side show a "COMM"?
Not that I can see....But here it is:
Thanks. So, we still do not know if we are talking about two different understrikes.
Makes sense that it they would do one they would do others as well.