New Brunswick 1861 cent
This specimen was lot 1041 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $1,920. The catalog description[1] noted, "CANADA. New Brunswick. Cent, 1861. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS SPECIMEN-64 Red Brown. A pleasing Specimen strike with frosty obverse devices, and obverse fields that exhibit rich sunset hues with an underlying flash. The reverse is a mostly a mottled dark brown tone." In 1861, the province of New Brunswick retired its collection of semi-official tokens and introduced decimal coinage. A full range of denominations, from half cent to twenty cents, was issued 1861-64. This date is common in all grades altho the specimens are rare.
Recorded mintage: 1,000,000 plus specimens.
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KM-6.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Cross, W. K., The Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 62nd Ed., Toronto: Charlton International, 2008.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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