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Lot:2011 1811 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Overton-108. Rarity-2. Small 8. Mint State-67 (PCGS).

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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 94000

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A high government official recently told me that he considered all ardent numismatists as slightly insane. -- William H. Woodin, 1911.Few superlatives would be too strong to indicate this coins level of eye appeal and overall quality. The cartwheel luster shines its spotlight-brightness at the rims as it spins briskly. The toning is warm and fairly even gold-tinged silver at arms length, but focus reveals a burst of rich orange and gold around the obverse design elements and even brighter tones at the left reverse periphery, where some nearly hidden shades of green, rose, and blue more likely to be found on a lorikeet than among the interstices of a gem Capped Bust half dollar can be seen. The strike is superb, with full centers on all stars but star 9, nearly full denticles, and unparalleled detail of the central devices. The surfaces are immaculate, frosty, and fresh as the day they were minted, with only a fine abrasion on the left ear of the top arrowhead found after extensive study. A clash mark is seen atop the eagles beak on the reverse, under URI of PLURIBUS, continuing below UNUM, but no die cracks are seen. The reverse shows a 45º rotation, unusual but not unique among specimens of this variety. The Overton collection piece, sold privately in 1993, was cataloged with a 30º rotation.Other Capped Bust half dollars have been graded MS-67. PCGS has extended the MS-67 or MS-67+ grade to Capped Bust halves on 24 occasions, likely representing a smaller number of discrete specimens. Fully one-third date between 1830 and the end of the series in 1836. Four of them are dated 1808, of which two are offered in the present sale. The remaining 12 are spread throughout the series, and most issues are not represented by a single specimen that survives so fine. The superb Iowa collection includes one at this level, an 1811 graded MS-67+, the only example of the date to surpass this coin at PCGS. Remarkably, the present offering from the D. Brent Pogue Collection includes six Capped Bust halves graded MS-67 or MS-67+ by PCGS. Our research finds only seven previous auction opportunities to bid on any Capped Bust half dollar graded PCGS MS-67 or finer, not a single one of which has arisen since 2011.The provenance of this piece is as notable as its extraordinary quality. William H. Woodin is best known to numismatists as a collector of patterns and gold coins, but the 1911 auction of coins from his collection also included over 300 half dollars, most in high grade. Woodin went on to co-author a work on patterns with the underappreciated Edgar H. Adams, the greatest numismatic writer and scholar of his generation, a book that remained standard until the release of the Judd reference. Outside of numismatics, Woodin was a titan of industry who served as secretary of the Treasury in Franklin Delano Roosevelts Cabinet before his death in 1934. His passion for numismatics was among the guiding forces of his fascinating life.Well provenanced and desirable in every imaginable way, this is one of the best preserved and most beautiful Capped Bust half dollars in the Pogue Collection and, therefore, one of the best preserved and most beautiful Capped Bust half dollars extant. There has never been a collection that was so laden with gems that a coin of this quality would not stand out conspicuously.

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