Sommer Islands @ Goldberg Público Deposited
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Subject: Re: Sommer Islands @ Goldberg
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JA,
Of all the 100 or so pieces in the Norris sale, this is one of the
two I seriously considered. I thought it had pretty decent sharpness
in the catelogue, but on first hand viewing, the surfaces appeared a
bit unnatural to me. Specifically, I found them a bit too uniformly
gray.
These are poorly made, thin cooper coins with some light silver
coating made back in the early 1600s. With a few exceptions, they
have seen some pretty bad elemental conditions. Though I have not
seen all that many, the ones I have seen exhibit wear and corrosion
that take them back to the more coppery/verdigis origion I would
expect to see. Some pieces have occassional pockets of silvering
lodged into the valleys of the devices. Anyway, that is just my
opinion. Having said that, I beleive the ultimate buyer owned the
coin originally and bought it back. Always a good sign. Moreover, I
think the buyer is fairly knowlegeable individual. We discussed this
piece and he was fairly comfortable with its coloring and
originality.
Any way you look at it. These are rare coins and hard to come by in
any condition.
Roger S.
--- In colonial-coins@y..., "colonialcoinunion" <jagre@a...> wrote:
> To anyone who viewed the lots at the Goldberg / Norris sale, how
good was
> that Sommer Islands Shilling compared to any others that have been
offered
> in the recent past?
>
> I have not been at this too long, and that is the first one I've
seen in person.
>
> JA - 2002-10-27
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