CNG 87, Lot: 2040. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNITED STATES, Colonial & Related. Pre-Revolutionary local issues. CU ‘Halfpenny’ Token (29mm, 7.76 g, 5h). Smither’s Pitt Token. Uncertain private mint, possibly in New York City or Philadelphia. Dated 1766. Bust left Sir William Pitt the Elder left, wearing overcoat / Ship under sail right on sea. Breen 251; Whitman W-8350; Betts 519. VF, brown surfaces, a few light deposits. Rare and historically interesting.

From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.