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Lot:2007 1809 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Overton-106. Rarity-3. Mint State-66+ (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 70500

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The new turban head design type first used in the later part of 1807 was redesigned in 1809. -- Al C. Overton.Meeting the standards for a superb gem by every measure, this half dollars luster, originality, strike, and eye appeal are essentially unimprovable. Both obverse and reverse show light reflectivity in the fields as well as a consistent silver gray and gold that deepens at the peripheries with hints of amber and olive. Spectacularly beautiful. Struck from crisp and unclashed dies whose states remain early enough to reveal raised polishing lines still present around the denomination. The stars are struck in sculptural relief, though a few show modest softness at centers; the distinctive punch used for star 13, whose "bitemark" has long been said to have been a John Reich signature, is rotated 180 degrees from its usual position. A glass and a light source reveal few issues, including a single thin diagonal line on the cheek, a dull mark in the left obverse field, and a little spot at the outside point of star 13, none of which affect the eye appeal. While some coins may meet the definition of a gem based upon a lack of flaws, this coin rises to the title of superb gem with its indefatigable luster, its radiant beauty, and its untrammeled originality.The first year of a new portrait of Liberty, described in Overton as "made smaller with smaller face, jaw line better defined, cap is smaller with folds more pronounced with only one line on headband below LIBERTY, bust more fully developed." Overton described the modified reverse as including "many subtle changes in the eagle, including a fuller left wing, shield wider, claws and talons larger." Whereas the 1807 and 1808 half dollars, even in the best preservation, often show softness on Libertys cheek and profile on the obverse and the eagles head on the reverse, those are typically fairly well realized on the new design types of 1809. Other issues appear with the modified design elements, including frequent weakness left of the reverse shield, poorly defined peripheral obverse stars, and other localized anomalies. The re-engineering of the half dollar dies continued with further modifications in later years, ones most collectors would recognize even if reference books rarely mention them.The 1809 issue enjoyed a healthy mintage of nearly 1.5 million coins, but choice Mint State examples are rare. Among the 15 die varieties of 1809, no Mint State survivors are recorded from five of them. For the Overton-106 marriage, the Condition Census lists a single MS-66, two MS-65 coins, and two more graded MS-63. The superb Kaufman coin, now included in a spectacular Iowa cabinet, has been certified as an MS-66 by both NGC and PCGS, but this piece has been given top honors by PCGS. The crispness of the early die state, sometimes called Overton-106 (pronounced Overton-106 "prime"), likewise gives this coin a special edge in terms of sharpness and eye appeal. Herrman has called this early die state "probably R5," denoting fewer than 75 survivors in all grades.The provenance of this coin includes three of the most important collections of American coins ever built. Though the Earle sale in 1912 included thousands of lots ranging from ancient to modern times, George H. Earle Jr. clearly paid special attention to the Capped Bust half dollar series. John H. Clapp purchased 37 Capped Bust halves from the Earle sale, more than a third of the total offering, each of which remained in his collection when he died in 1940, all of which were sold to Louis Eliasberg in 1942, and none of which were available to other collectors until the Eliasberg sale of 1997. Three of those Earle-Eliasberg half dollars are included in the present offering of the D. Brent Pogue Collection.The edge device on this piece shows a mild misalignment of the two parallel dies of the edge mill, also known as the Castaing machine, leaving an edge device that reads FIFTY CENTSALF A DOLLAR instead of the proper FIFTY CENTS OR HALF A DOLLAR. While the edge is partially obscured in the current encapsulation, this aspect is noted in the 1997 Eliasberg catalog.

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