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Lot:4031 1826 Capped Head Left Half Eagle. Bass Dannreuther-1. Rarity-5. Mint State-66+ (PCGS).

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USD 260,000-700,000

SBP-苏富比2016年5月纽约波格集藏IV

2016-05-25 07:00:00

2016-05-25 12:00:00

USD 446500

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For more than fifty years, the Dunham Collection was and is today probably the best known private numismatic collection formed in America.&rdquo; &mdash; B. Max Mehl, 1941&nbsp;</em>Aglow with rolling satiny luster over choice deep yellow surfaces, this coin has retained a superb level of originality. Dozens of decades of benign neglect have attracted a lovely speckling of coppery toning around the peripheries and design elements, along with hints of amber and violet at the base of 1 in the date and beneath the last S of STATES. The luster and aesthetic appeal are superlative, and the technical preservation of the surfaces parallels this level of excellence. No marks of any consequence are seen in the fields, and barely any lines can be detected under scrutiny. A pinpoint mark is seen on Liberty&rsquo;s chin, along with a longer nick at the junction of her chin and throat. A vertical fissure or natural flaw is present on the right side of the final S of STATES, and a light abrasion has affected the raised wire rim atop that letter. The strike is crisp, showing localized softness on only Liberty&rsquo;s ear curl, the lowest curl near star 13, and atop the eagle&rsquo;s wing at right. Fine vertical die polish lines are seen across the reverse, most prominently near the eagle&rsquo;s beak and into the bases of STATES. The frost that persisted inside the shield in three earlier marriages of this reverse die to 1820-dated obverses has been polished away. The die rotation shows the reverse slightly counterclockwise from coin turn.This coin was first collected by one of the pioneers of numismatics in America, Matthew Adams Stickney of Salem, Massachusetts. Already an experienced numismatist by the early 1840s, he actively added to his cabinet only until his retirement in 1854. During his heyday he had little competition for rarities, and many of his choicest specimens, including his 1815 half eagle, came from New York exchange brokers at bullion value plus a commission. In 1867, Stickney claimed that &ldquo;very many of the rare coins which now enrich other cabinets were, by great solicitation, obtained from me,&rdquo; but this coin he kept. When his cabinet was sold by his daughters more than a decade after his death, it was acquired by William Forrester Dunham, a Chicago druggist and grocer. Dunham acquired his 1804 dollar in 1904 and his 1822 half eagle in 1906. The Stickney sale of 1907 occurred during his prime collecting years. He retired in 1916 and died in 1936.This has long been recognized as the finest example of the date outside of the National Numismatic Collection in the Smithsonian Institution, which contains a Proof that the Dannreuther text calls &ldquo;the finest early Proof gold coin among their examples in that format.&rdquo; Henry Chapman&rsquo;s economic description (&ldquo;Uncirculated. Mint lustre.&rdquo;) was outpaced by B. Max Mehl&rsquo;s prose in the 1941 Dunham sale, where he called this coin &ldquo;just as perfect as the day it was minted,&rdquo; a &ldquo;beautiful sharp Uncirculated specimen with every star filled and full mint luster.&rdquo; Acquired soon after by Louis Eliasberg, this coin was inexplicably sold as a duplicate in New Netherlands&rsquo; 49th Sale; the retained Clapp coin, though called &ldquo;Uncirculated&rdquo; on the Clapp appraisal, was sold as an EF-45 in 1982 and is clearly inferior to this coin. When cataloged for New Netherlands by Walter Breen in 1957, this coin was called &ldquo;very close to perfection; a well struck, evenly centered little jewel, showing considerable proof-like lustre.&rdquo; A decade later, when this piece was sold from the cabinet of Alex Shuford, it was given Abe Kosoff&rsquo;s highest compliment and graded &ldquo;Brilliant Uncirculated Gem.&rdquo;&nbsp;Perhaps the highest laurel a coin can wear today is that of finest certified. This specimen is not only the finest 1826 half eagle ever graded by PCGS, but is tied for finest of the entire design type. Only six Capped Head, Large Planchet half eagles have ever been certified MS-66+ by PCGS. Three, dated 1813, 1818, and 1820, were included in Part III of the D. Brent Pogue Collection. The other three, dated 1821, 1826, and 1829, are all included in the present offering.PCGS# 519937. NGC ID: 25R4.

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