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Sale 75
September Pre Long Beach
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Lot 2022 |
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1847 Hawaiian Cent. Medcalf 2CC-2. Crosslet 4, 15 berries. PCGS graded MS-63 Red & Brown. Normal dark areas due to water damage to the ship's borders which flooded the keg below containing the Hawaiian cents shipped to Hawaii. The development of large sugar plantations and the adoption of a Western style economy beginning about the 1820s created a demand for coined money in Hawaii. At first, this money consisted of cardboard scrip and tokens as well as coins carried in from a variety of countries having interests in the islands. This source proved unreliable, and coins were in chronically short supply. As frustration grew, King Kamehameha III (1825-54) set out to rectify this shortage by including a provision for a Hawaiian monetary system in his new legal code of 1846. This system provided for a unit known as the dala, which was based on the American dollar. The dala was divided into 100 keneta, or cents. Several denominations of fractional silver coins were included in this system, as well as a copper 1847 piece (the only one to be struck under his reign) to be valued at one keneta. Pop 61; 24 finer, 2 in 63+, 20 in 64, 1 in 64+, 1 in 65. (PCGS # 10966) Estimated Value $1,300 - 1,500
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$1,438 |
Lot 2023 |
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1883 Hawaiian Ten Cents. NGC graded MS-62. Lightly toned. Pop 20; 77 finer. (PCGS # 10979) Estimated Value $800 - 900
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$863 |
Lot 2024 |
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1883 Hawaiian Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63. CAC Approved. Pleasing multi-color toning. Pop 63; 76 finer. (PCGS # 10991)
The Hawaii State Motto, which originated on the early Kindom-issue silver coins of 1883 is, 'Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono.' The life of the land is perpetuated by righteousness. It refers to the speech of Kiing Kamehameha III at the time of cession, Feb. 25, 1843. 'I have given away the life of the land. I have hope that the life of the land will be restored when my conduct is justified.' It very naturally alludes to the righteousness of the British government, in returning the Island to their legal sovereign, to the righteousness of the Hawaiian which secured the restoration, and to the general principle, that it is only by righteousness that national existence is preserved." King Kalakaua I (r.1874-91) included it on his 1883 silver coin issue. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200
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$1,725 |
Lot 2025 |
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1883 Hawaiian Dollar. PCGS graded AU-55. Nice even toning on both sides. Lustrous and well struck. Half a million Silver Dollars were struck, but most were later melted, leaving this as one of the major important Types in the limited Hawaiian silver coinage set that included the dime, quarter dollar and half dollar as well. The Kalakaua coins were withdrawn by the United States in 1904 and melted (PCGS # 10995) Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100
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