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Lot:2077 1798 Capped Bust Right Half Eagle. Bass Dannreuther-2. Rarity-5. Large 8, 13-Star Reverse, Narrow Da

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USD 25,000-50,000

SBP-苏富比2015年9月纽约波格集藏Ⅱ

2015-10-01 07:00:00

2015-10-01 12:00:00

USD 58750

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The coinage has been stopped near three months, occasioned by the late calamitous fever, and the decay of some of the machinery. -- Elias Boudinot to President John Adams, January 3, 1799.Impressively frosty and positively beautiful, the highly lustrous deep yellow gold surfaces show hints of warm orange toning inside the rims. Satiny and lacking any reflective character, both sides exude rich aesthetic appeal. Some light hairlines are visible, few in number and trivial in importance, but no heavy impact points are seen. A thin scratch starts and stops on a path from behind the ear, across the throat, and into the field near star 14. The in-hand visual impact of both sides is nothing short of superb.Most devices show enviable sharpness, though the disintegrating die state causes some localized weakness, such as that found in the center of the reverse. Struck from the same obverse die as the 1798 Small Eagle, the heavy arc under the date is still present, as is the similar scribe line above ERT of LIBERTY, but a significant network of further cracks has also developed. A heavy vertical crack extends from the rim through the top of the cap, jogging through the back of Libertys hair before joining another crack that crosses to star 1 and the rim beyond. A further vertical crack in the left obverse field causes a crease that extends as high as star 6. Two very light cracks intersect near central obverse, while another faint crack connects the bases of 17 together, 17 are also joined by a short delicate crack at their tops. Rim crumbling is apparent above stars 4, 5, and 8. Through all of these cracks, the detail remains excellent, and no adjustment marks are visible.The reverse is similarly shattered. A vertical crack from the rim through the second S in STATES, with a brief detour at the middle curve of that letter, descends through star 4 into the center of the eagles head. Another touches the wingtip at right and runs along the top of that wing before crossing stars 12 and 13 on its way to the center, where it meets the first crack and from which point another crack descends across the end of the olive branch to the rim. A further crack extends from that intersection through the upper right shield point, the topmost berry on the olive branch, and the right side of R in AMERICA on its way to the rim. A very thin crack from below B of PLURIBUS passes through the upper left shield point through the arrowheads and N of UNITED. As shattered as this die is, other even more advanced die states are known.With every manner of roadblock thrown in their path, the efforts of the staff of the United States Mint in 1798 were little short of heroic. Mint Director Elias Boudinot had to contend with Congresss "great want of economy," with cost-cutting concerns manifesting in varieties like the 1795 Heraldic Eagle, the 1798 Small Eagle, and the 1797/5 overdate, produced from out of date dies that were too precious to discard. Further, the annual yellow fever season turned Philadelphia into a temporary ghost town during warm weather months. Mint Treasurer Benjamin Rush, considered the nations expert on the disease, noted in 1798 that "moschetoes abounded, as usual in sickly season."No PCGS-certified 1798 half eagle has ever appeared at auction graded finer than MS-62. As the most plentiful of the 1798 varieties, and among the most plentiful of the 18th century half eagles, the 1798 Large 8, 13 Star Reverse is often selected by type collectors. Blessed with a provenance that includes the Garrett and Bass collections and tied for finest certified, perhaps no other survivor from these dies could be more desirable than the D. Brent Pogue specimen.

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