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Lot:1064 1820 Capped Bust Quarter. Browning-3. Medium 0. Rarity-3. Mint State-66 (PCGS).PCGS Population: 1, n

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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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In addition to the 1804 dollar, there were an 1834 half dollar, quarter dollar, and half dime, all in Proof condition. — Eric P. Newman and Kenneth E. Bressett, The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, 1962, commenting on the 1917 Watters Collection sale by Glendinings.A coin of indescribable beauty, toned in vivid Technicolor shades of watery champagne, cobalt, magenta, and orange-gold, the reverse somehow even bolder and brighter than the obverse. Deeply, profoundly reflective, so much so that this coin is actually challenging to examine under a bright light. The devices are so finely detailed that one wonders if an oversized plaster and a reducing lathe could have resolved greater detail than the one-to-one artwork this represents. Metal has filled every design element present on the die, finding its highest and sharpest relief. The denticles are doubled almost everywhere except, oddly, a short arc at the right obverse. Close to aesthetic perfection, close to technical perfection as well. A glass finds some of the most minor lines strewn across the fields, a small mark inside of star 12 and another parallel to star 10. Without pondering this coin lengthily, such minor marks would never be found, and a casual observer would be forgiven if they deemed this coin utterly perfect.Six Proofs from these dies are known to exist, of which this is the finest. One of the others is from the famed King of Siam set, a collection of coins struck in 1834, including a Class I 1804 dollar. That set, produced as a diplomatic gift, was not the only such collection of 1834 Proof coins (plus newly made silver dollars and gold eagles, both backdated to 1804). Another set was prepared that year for the Sultan of Muscat, a set that included the finest known Class I 1804 dollar, which will be offered in a later installment of the D. Brent Pogue Collection. The 1834 Proof quarter in the King of Siam set is a Browning-2, as the Sultan of Muscats would certainly be, since the sets were made at the same time. The Sultan of Muscat 1804 dollar was first sold at auction in the 1917 C.A. Watters sale at Glendinings in London, along with an 1834 half dollar, quarter dollar, and half dime, all in Proof condition in other lots, all from the broken-up Sultan of Muscat presentation set, from which Watters acquired the silver coins (and maybe the copper ones) decades earlier at a London pawn shop. The minor coins were not photographed in the Watters auction, making a certain provenance impossible. However, of the six examples from these dies known in Proof, only two have a reasonable chance at being the Sultan of Muscat - C.A. Watters coin. The King of Siam coin is clearly out of the running; it remains with the mostly intact set today, graded Proof-65 (PCGS). The coin retained for the Mint Cabinet, now at the Smithsonian, is clearly not the Sultan of Muscat coin. As the Sultan of Muscat - Watters -Pogue 1804 dollar is an extraordinary gem, there is no reason the Sultan of Muscat quarter would be heavily handled or of questionable Proof status, eliminating the uncertain and environmentally damaged Proof from the 1977 Reed Hawn sale. The fact that the Sultan of Muscat 1804 dollar is such an extraordinary gem (PCGS Proof-68) makes the two likeliest possibilities to be the Sultan of Muscat Proof 1834 quarter the two best pieces: this one and the Eric P. Newman coin, graded Proof-66* CAM (NGC).Both this coin and the Newman coin trace their lineage to the Col. E.H.R. Green Collection, which was broken up after Greens death in 1936 and a few years of wrangling over his immense estate. The Newman coin was plated in Browning, so it can be placed in Ard W. Brownings personal collection in the early 1920s, before his book was photographed and published in 1925. Henry Chapman sold the Sultan of Muscat 1804 dollar to Virgil Brand after acquiring it in the 1917 C.A. Watters sale. The identity of the buyer of lot 246, a group lot that included the Proof 1834 quarter, is unknown. Where the coin went after 1917 is also not known. It is logical to assume that one of the two pieces that Green acquired during the 1920s and 1930s, his most active era, would have been the Sultan of Muscat coin. It could have gone from Waldo C. Newcomer to Green, or via several dealer intermediaries, or directly to him. One of the two Green coins almost certainly traces its lineage back to the set of coins minted in 1834 and given as a diplomatic gift from the United States to the Sultan of Muscat on October 1, 1835.It could be this one. And if it is not, this piece will continue to retain a world-class provenance and its status as the single finest known Proof of this date.

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