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1773 1/2P Virginia Halfpenny, No Period MS63 Red and 1773[1/2P] Virginia Halfpenny, No Period MS63 R

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1773 1/2P Virginia Halfpenny, No Period MS63 Red and 1773[1/2P] Virginia Halfpenny, No Period MS63 R
<B>1773<1/2P> Virginia Halfpenny, No Period MS63 Red and Brown NGC.</B></I> Six harpstrings. Newman-9B. This is an outstanding example with nearly full orange mint color on the obverse, beginning to fade to light brown on the reverse. It is probably the case that this example is from the Cohen hoard that consisted of a couple thousand Mint State examples of this design. Today, these should be more popular than they are, especially when one considers the words of Walter Breen: "The Virginia halfpence occupy a unique place in American Colonial numismatics, being the sole copper coinage issued under royal authority for the only colony having the legal right to such coinage; the only issue whose circulation was actually interrupted by the Revolution; and the only one of which the average collector has a chance to obtain an uncirculated specimen." Listed on page 43 of the 2006 <I>Guide Book.</B></I><BR><I>From The Oak Collection of American Colonial Coinage.</B></I>