Lot 4294
1847 Hawaiian Cent. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown. Crosslet 4 in date; berries 7 + 8. Smooth brown luster with steel blue accents. HAPA HANERI (literally "half of one hundred") should have been spelled HAPA HANELI, there being no letter R in the Hawaiian alphabet. Of the 100,000 cents that were coined, only 11,000 or so remained in circulation when a census was taken in 1862 in the reign of Kamehameha IV (PCGS # 10965) .
Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,700.
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| Realized $1,725 |
