Simply beautiful 1795 Talbot, Allum, & Lee cent muling coming to Stacks

[coinsarefun]

Link:
http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lsid=AN00000754&lotno=4457


Incredible!!!!





Description

1795 Talbot, Allum, & Lee cent muling. Breen-1051, W-8725. Blofield Cavalry Reverse. MS-63 BN.

171.4 gns. A simply delectable specimen of this second rarest TAL muling, after only the famed York Cathedral muling. Fields are watery and prooflike, the obverse olive-gold and brown, with iridescent lavender around Liberty's upper body, and the reverse awash in iridescent golds, blues and purples over chestnut brown surfaces. Sharply and fully struck on a sizeable flan, nearly identical weight to the cleaned AU that went unsold in our March 2009 sale. This muling was clearly struck from two discarded dies. The TAL die is cracked and failing at its peripheries and has been polished to the point that Liberty's head has become completely separated from her body; the Blofield side is badly broken around BL without that piece having fallen from the die. The serpentine and dot edge is unusual even for a Conder token and is our favorite among the TAL mulings. The force of the strike has created a coin that is about 1mm larger than normal and has caused a planchet crack that extends from Liberty's shoulder to the rim at around 12:00, visible on both sides. Avidly collected but inexplicably missing from the Red Book, we see a day when there will be even more collectors competing for a very limited supply of this particular TAL muling—do not miss this important opportunity to acquire a rarity today.











That's why I just had to have this particular Conder token

[Conderluva]

A nice token!

  I wonder why some of those pieces never have DH reference
included in the description.  It's like they have been fully adopted out of
the Conder series into the American catalog of coins.  Maybe its just the
lack of familiarity with Conders. 

Funny side note...Couldn't believe in the print catalog for
the upcoming Goldberg sale that they call them "Condor"
all up and through the thing.