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Lot:5030 1798 Draped Bust Silver Dollar. Bowers Borckardt-113, Bolender-27. Rarity-2. Pointed 9, Close Date.

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SBP-苏富比2017年3月波格集藏V

2017-04-01 07:30:00

2017-04-01 12:30:00

USD 141000

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Shall look forward with a great deal of pleasure to hearing from you and Mrs. Norweb with bids for any other items in the sale. - B. Max Mehl to Ambassador R. Henry Norweb, November 17, 1954Acquired by Mrs. Norweb in 1954, this gem is a throwback to the era of old cabinets with the sort of spectacular eye appeal that only time and natural processes can create. Opalescent toning on both sides is enriched with cartwheel luster and enlivened with frost to create a truly lovely aesthetic impression. Both sides are outwardly shaded with antique gray, but the obverse retains splashes of bright violet that turns to pastel blue and tropical green against stars, denticles, and the central device. Solidly struck on both sides, only some of the lower feathers on the eagles chest and a few of the reverse stars show evidence of weakness. Each obverse star is sharp and well realized, as is Libertys portrait. Aside from some insignificant hairlines at the central obverse and gatherings of tiny marks beneath Libertys chin and on her bosom, the surfaces are all but defect free. A short curved strike-through is seen beneath the right end of the reverse scroll.This coin serves as the exemplar for Bowers Die State II, described as the die state most often seen. The die crack described by Bowers between 9 and the denticles has not fully blossomed, visible only as a hairline crack within the interior of the 9. On the reverse, a long arc crack tops ES of STATES, runs through the tops of OF and the nearby wingtip, and ends at the rim above the first A of AMERICA. A short crack connects the left top corner of the shield with the motto scroll above. Spalling is witnessed in linear form to the upper left of Libertys head, in the right obverse field left of stars 11 and 12, and on the reverse above M of UNUM.B. Max Mehls remarkable arc from immigrant seller of shoes to the most famous numismatist in the world had peaked by the time he sold this coin in November 1954. He would pen only one more auction catalog after the Rovensky and Hoffecker sale, an October 1955 sale that John W. Adams called "an undistinguished conclusion to a remarkable series." He passed away in September 1957, having been a full time numismatist for more than half a century. The Norwebs first met Mehl two decades earlier, in the mid-1930s. The relationship started with a modest acquisition of commemorative halves but evolved into one of the most important numismatic relationships either party would enjoy.The 1954 sale from which the Norwebs acquired this coin included multiple major consignments. Getting Oliver E. Futters colonial coins was a major coup for Mehl, beating out the hometown teams at New Netherlands Coin Company and Stacks. The collection and stock of L.W. Hoffecker, the El Paso promoter of commemorative issues, and the foreign gold coins of Joseph Rovensky were given top billing, but the sale also included coins that Mehl had purchased from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. The UPenn collection included a mingling of two major cabinets, those of Jacob Giles Morris, who died in 1854, and Robert C.H. Brock, who once owned the extremely rare 1850 Dubosq $10 that was the individual highlight of the sale.Mehls November 1954 sale opened with a date run of silver dollars. The 1803 was identified as ex Brock (though it could have also been from Morris, which both the University and Mehl conflated). It is unlikely the dollars were Futters, whose early dollars were sold in Stacks sale of May 1957. This piece could have been a singleton, or it could have come from the ancient Jacob Giles Morris collection. We may never know.Although the Garrett coin is listed higher than this piece on the 1993 Bowers census, that coin was graded only MS-63 (PCGS) when it last sold, in Heritages January 2001 sale. This coin appears to outrank every other specimen of this variety and is a strong contender for the finest 1798 dollar seen by PCGS, though it is numerically tied with a mostly white BB-105 as the only other MS-65.

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