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HT 14, Low 6.
Engrailed edge. Unsigned, but ascribed to Robert Lovett, Sr. (not “Thomas” Lovett as per Low & DeWitt.) This is an early striking without the die crack on the reverse extending from the rim to L in APRIL.

This is the popular “Whig Victory” issue, celebrating the victory of the New York Whig Party in the 1834 elections.

(H. Joseph Levine, PCAC, The Charles Litman Collection, Decmeber 6, 2003)

Unsigned but attributed to Robert Lovett, Sr. This is the popular Whig Victory issue, celebrating the victory of the New York Whig Party in the 1834 election.

(Stacks, the John J. Ford Collection, Part IV, June 23rd, 2004)