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Lot:4039 1830 Capped Head Left Half Eagle. Bass Dannreuther-2. Rarity-5+. Small 5D. Mint State-64+ (PCGS).

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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 152750

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In short, the veins and places of deposit are very numerous, and scattered over the whole country ... [so] it is difficult to give a very correct estimate of the product of mines of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; but it was said to amount to 500,000 dollars in 1830 from North Carolina alone. During that year, nearly the whole coinage of the United States Mint was from native gold. The coinage was 643,105 dollars in gold coin.&rdquo; &mdash; Godfrey T. Vigne, Esq., Six Months in America, 1833</em>Superb satiny luster enlivens medium yellow gold enriched with abundant highlights of pale olive and hints of coppery orange. While not bright and reflective like the previous 1830 half eagle, this piece offers a warm and splendidly lustrous appearance. A very light horizontal lamination crosses the curl on Liberty&rsquo;s neck, blending into the details unless scrutinized. The strike is mostly bold, flat on the curl next to Liberty&rsquo;s ear and soft atop the eagle&rsquo;s wing at left and the talon at right. No serious nicks are seen, and only minor hairlines are seen under a light. A very thin hairline scratch traces the outside of the lower portrait from Liberty&rsquo;s neck, around the bust truncation, and above the date.&nbsp;The two 1830 half eagle die marriages share a common obverse but are distinguishable from their reverses. The Large 5D reverse, used on BD-1, was previously used on 1829 half eagles. The Small 5D reverse was first used in this 1830 combination, then appears again in 1831. The order of the two die varieties of 1830 half eagles is uncertain. BD-1 makes sense as the first variety of the year, as it uses the reverse of 1829, but the Pogue specimen offered in the preceding lot shows a crack at star 9 that places that coin later on the die state continuum than the BD-2 Small D half eagles struck from an uncracked obverse die. Die emission sequences are sometimes not as clear or simple as modern students would hope, and it is possible that the BD-2 marriage took place after the production of some BD-1 coins but before the production of others. This phenomenon, called a remarriage, is seen among half dimes, dimes, and half dollars of this era. There were five separate deliveries of half eagles in 1830: March 31, May 20, June 30, September 30, and December 31. These deliveries represent an unknown number of individual deposits, but potentially the reverse dies could have been alternated every time a batch of half eagles was coined this year.This example shows no crack at star 9, but the recutting is present and the star is intact, suggesting that it precedes the cracked state rather than having been struck after the crack was lapped away. The recutting atop the 0 of the date is intact, while the remnants of recutting on 18 are essentially invisible, as seen on the BD-1 in the previous lot.When Godfrey T. Vigne, an English tourist, explored the United States from New York to Virginia to the Great Lakes, he had little to say about the coins he encountered. The gold mines of America held some interest, however, and he commented on the various gold districts at length. Among the regions that fascinated him most was mineral-rich north Georgia, where the Dahlonega Mint was founded just a few years later. &ldquo;Gold,&rdquo; Vigne wrote, &ldquo;has been discovered on the territories of the Indians; and the state of Georgia has applied to the general government to fulfill the contract, and rid them of the Cherokees.&rdquo; Despite the fact that &ldquo;the Cherokees are far advanced in civilization; and have among them men of very superior abilities, &ldquo;Vigne expressed surprise that &ldquo;the Georgians, however, happen to think that this is just the time for them to go, and they forcibly prevent them from digging for gold on their own land.&rdquo; The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the government to explore removing the natives from their gold-bearing lands, and the government&rsquo;s ability to find a minority group of Cherokees to sign the Treaty of New Echota of 1835 enabled the United States to force the tribe to new territory in modern-day Oklahoma. The Dahlonega Mint was under construction within a year of Vigne&rsquo;s visit, but the Georgia gold rush petered out soon thereafter.With frosty luster that places this coin in contrast to the many prooflike specimens of the date, this example is the finest 1830 Small 5D half eagle certified by PCGS. Among all 1830 half eagles, only three coins have ever been graded finer by PCGS.PCGS# 8152. NGC ID: 25RA.

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