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Lot:4032 1827 Capped Head Left Half Eagle. Bass Dannreuther-1. Rarity-5+. Mint State-65+ (PCGS).

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USD 130,000-275,000

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 211500

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Mr. Boyd is one of the best informed collectors alive and his opinion on any phase of numismatics must be given serious consideration.&rdquo; &mdash; Stuart Mosher, The Numismatist, July 1947</em>Hints of pale blue and coronas of deep yellow gold embrace design elements, contrasting with the lighter toned brightness of the central fields. Astoundingly satiny and richly original, this half eagle rarity boasts an aesthetic presence very few coins of this type can offer. The strike is bold, complete nearly everywhere and showing no obvious areas of softness. The fields are free of all but the most minimal defects, including some inconsequential lines and a couple contact points near star 10. A horizontal scrape crosses the top of Liberty&rsquo;s cheek to her dangling curl, and a jogging nick crosses the center of the reverse shield. A speck of detritus clings within the lower intricacies of third hollow pale of the shield.The die state is early, lacking the &ldquo;shallow rust&rdquo; that Bass saw between the olive stems of his specimen. The reverse is unlapped, an earlier die state than the one described in the Bass-Dannreuther book. The final S of STATES is recut, and graver lines, appearing like die cracks, extend from the bases of TAT. The die rotation shows the reverse slightly counterclockwise from coin turn.The practice of recycling catalog photographs, which was most commonplace in the 1940s and 1950s, complicates provenance research. The first time a photograph is used, the coin offered is almost certain to be the one depicted (though images in Stack&rsquo;s sales of the mid to late 1940s, copied from original photographs taken of the Col. Green half eagles, may be an exception). On subsequent uses of the same image, sometimes the catalog text offers enough clues to confirm or refute a match. Identical photographs of this half eagle turn up in a succession of Numismatic Gallery catalogs between 1946 and 1956. It first appeared when the F.C.C. Boyd collection of gold coins was offered for sale in January 1946 as the &ldquo;World&rsquo;s Greatest Collection.&rdquo; Numismatic Gallery had sold no similar specimens in previous auctions, so there is little doubt that this coin is, indeed, the F.C.C. Boyd specimen. Two years later, when the image again appeared in the catalog of the &ldquo;Memorable&rdquo; Collection, consigned by Jacob Shapiro (aka Jake Bell), this coin was described as &ldquo;an uncirculated gem ... obtained from the W.G.C. sale.&rdquo; The image was used again in the 1950 Adolphe Menjou sale, containing coins that were mostly from the collection of Charles Williams of Cincinnati. &ldquo;In the Bell Sale it brought $2200 and in W.G.C. $2100,&rdquo; the Menjou description notes, but then sums saying &ldquo;this Uncirculated gem is worth ... no less than the Bell coin.&rdquo; The language is clumsy, but the coin offered is almost certainly the Boyd-Bell specimen. Six years later, in the 1956 Thomas G. Melish sale, this image makes a final appearance, but the text does little to confirm that the coin is the same. The description begins &ldquo;Uncirculated, extremely rare,&rdquo; inconsistent with the Boyd, Bell, and Menjou offerings, which all called this specimen &ldquo;an uncirculated gem.&rdquo; It seems unlikely the Melish coin is the same.&nbsp;This was almost certainly the coin offered in Federal Brand Enterprises&rsquo; Million Dollar Auction Sale of January 1963, though the miserable quality image does not allow for absolute confirmation. The catalog described the coin as &ldquo;Uncirculated, sharp strike. As perfect a coin of this date that anyone could hope to own.&rdquo; In 1997, this coin was cataloged as &ldquo;apparently a newly discovered specimen not offered before.&rdquo;As a type, Capped Head half eagles of this quality are among the most elusive of early American gold coins. Just 10 Large Planchet, Capped Head half eagles have been graded finer than this one by PCGS, four of which are dated after 1820. Among those four, three are offered in the present sale, and of the 10, eight were included in the D. Brent Pogue Collection. This is the single finest 1827 half eagle known in any public or private collection.PCGS# 519939. NGC ID: 25R5.

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