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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26665383, member: 10461&quot;]<b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">United States (British Colonial): 1760 copper Voce Populi halfpenny, &quot;VOOE&quot; variety</font></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PCGS AU50.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/49471240" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/49471240" rel="nofollow">Cert. #49471240</a>.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/80846" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/80846" rel="nofollow">Numista-80846</a>, Krause-Mishler-TTN1.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-David Lawrence Rare Coins, <a href="https://www.davidlawrence.com/inventory/784638" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.davidlawrence.com/inventory/784638" rel="nofollow">Inventory #784638</a>, 20 October 2024.&nbsp; Purchased in the slab.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Though struck for use in Ireland, this issue circulated in the American colonies, and as such is listed in the Colonial section of the &quot;Red Book&quot; of United States coins.&nbsp; <i>&quot;Voce Populi&quot;</i> is Latin for &quot;Voice of the People&quot;.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Per the Numista listing (edited for punctuation):</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><i>&quot;This coin also circulated in the American Colonies, therefore US collectors also consider it an Early Colonial coin.</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><i>Very little is known about the origins of these coins, all of which carry the date 1760.&nbsp; Traditionally they have been attributed to a button maker named Roche, on South King Street, Dublin.&nbsp; Roche was, at that time, engaged in the manufacture of buttons for the army.&nbsp; He would have had the die-making skills [and] the raw materials to produce tokens like these.&nbsp; It is thought these coppers may have continued to be produced through 1761 using the 1760 dated dies.&quot;</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This particular variety, the &quot;VOOE&quot; subtype, happened when the die engraver accidentally punched a second &quot;O&quot; where the &quot;C&quot; in &quot;VOCE&quot; should be, and then corrected it by repunching the &quot;C&quot; over the erroneous second &quot;O&quot;.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The PCGS &quot;TrueView&quot; images here are inaccurate in regards to the coin&#039;s color.&nbsp; The David Lawrence images are more accurate.&nbsp; The coin is a chocolate brown color with nice surfaces, not the orangish color seen in the PCGS images.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1701323[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701324[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701325[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701326[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701327[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #ffffff">077500</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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