Kentucky Tokens
UNIQUE Kentucky Token the Lettered Edge Variant "PAYABLE AT BEDWORTH NUNEATON OR HINKLEY" PCGS Certified About Uncirculated-58
Undated (c. 1793-1795) Kentucky Token. W-8815. Hi Rarity-8+ (Unique). Struck in Copper. "PAYABLE AT BEDWORTH NUNEATON OR HINKLEY" Lettered Edge. PCGS graded About Uncirculated-58.
146.5 grains. Hi Rarity-8+ (Unique). A remarkable Unique Rarity, Ex: Sydney F. Martin Collection and is an incredible rarity for Kentucky token or rare Colonial Coin variety specialists. This is the Only Example Known with the Edge Lettering: PAYABLE AT BEDWORTH NUNEATON OR HINKLEY. This Variety was known to Crosby, and was Listed in his reference: "The Early Coins of America in 1875" as there was one example described having this unique edge lettering he located, listed in Strobridge's December 1871 Sale of the "Dr. Charles Clay Collection," Lot 298. To this very day, No Other Example has been Reported, it seems clear and extremely probable that the "Dr. Charles Clay" specimen is the exact coin offered here. An attractive and very sharply struck, near Mint State coin with slightly lustrous surfaces and even copper-brown natural color. An exciting and important opportunity to obtain a Unique, Red Book-Listed (page 73) extraordinary Colonial Coin.
Provenance: From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex New Netherlands Coin Co. (privately), April 23, 1955; our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Norweb Collection, Part I, October 1987, lot 1390; John Agre (Coin Rarities Online), May 2015.