426, Lot: 623. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL & PRE-FEDERAL, Nonlocal Imports. CU Halfpenny Token (30mm, 9.87 g, 6h). ‘Kentucky’ or ‘Starry Pyramid’ type. ‘Tower’ standard. Westwood’s (Birmingham) mint. Struck circa 1793-1796. Hand extending scroll left / Pyramid consisting of fifteen blazing stars, bearing the initials of the first fifteen states of the union; annulets around; all set on sun rays; rosette below. Plain edge. Breen 1155; Whitman W-8800; D&H 59c (Lancashire). EF.

Ex Byron Schieber Collection (Classical Numismatic Review XLI.1 [Spring 2016]), no. 422786.

The positioning of the K on the top star has led to colloquial designation of this type as a“Kentucky cent.”