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Lot:1004 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dime. Logan McCloskey-10. Rarity-3. Mint State-67 (PCGS).PCGS Population: 3,

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SBP-苏富比2015年5月纽约波格集藏I

2015-05-20 07:00:00

2015-05-20 19:00:00

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A little hoard of glittering new half dimes of this date [given] as a birthday present. — Q. David BowersThe luster on this example provides the viewer with a unique vision of how a 1795 half dime must have looked the day it was struck, covered in swirls of radiant cartwheel and a haze of warm luster around the devices. Some very shallow adjustment marks are seen at the extreme periphery of the lower reverse, having received insufficient striking pressure to obliterate them as a result of the large die break above TY of LIBERTY, and in a small area among the leaves and wing below ST of STATES. The strike is otherwise good, just a bit soft on the lowest curls as usually seen. A short die crack protrudes from the rim between stars 14 and 15, a more delicate one from the tip of star 14 toward the bust truncation. The technical quality is as superb as the grade promises, with just two short hairlines seen between stars 5 and 6. The toning on the obverse is mostly champagne with an area of blue behind Libertys head, while the reverse is aglow with olive and gold. The eye appeal is impressive.In a relative sense, this is a more available coin in gem Mint State than are most gems across various denominations in the D. Brent Pogue Collection. A story often offered with high grade 1795 half dimes is of a hoard, perhaps discovered in the 1860s (or, variously, in the 1880s) by famed auctioneer W. Elliot Woodward of Roxbury, Massachusetts. As described in Q. David Bowers American Coin Treasures and Hoards, in 1795, a Roxbury, Massachusetts woman named Rea is said to have received a little hoard of glittering new half dimes of this date as a birthday present. There was a Mrs. Rea in Roxbury when Woodward was active; Mary (or Maria) Rea was born in Charleston, South Carolina about 1791 and died in Roxbury in 1867. A little bag of glittering, pretty, tiny brand new half dimes could have been a birthday present for a four year old in 1795. Little is known about this hoard though, beyond Woodwards oblique mentions and the extensive narrative that has been built from them over the years. Estimates of the size of the hoard have ranged from a dozen pieces to over 100, but, in truth, all numbers are guesses.We do know this: 1795 half dimes are relatively available in Mint State, but rare in gem condition. PCGS has offered Mint State grades of MS-64 down to MS-60 on just over 100 occasions, representing different coins that surely number fewer than 100. In MS-65 and above, the numbers thin: 17 in MS-65, seven in MS-66, and just three in MS-67, as here. If this is what Maria Reas coins looked like when she was given them as a little girl, assuming the fable that has developed around Woodwards comments contains a kernel of truth, most of her coins dont look like this one anymore. In truth, few 1795 half dimes left the Mint looking like this, with such fine detail and surface, and fewer still have survived to the present day.

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