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Lot:5033 1799 Draped Bust Silver Dollar. Bowers Borckardt-157, Bolender-5. Rarity-2. Mint State-65+ (PCGS).

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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

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As late as 1882, United States coins were to be picked up in England very cheaply; now they very seldom occur. - Mr. E. Shorthouse, American Journal of Numismatics, April 1887With brilliance and lustrous cartwheel that suggest a silver dollar from a much later epoch, this gem stands out even against the backdrop of the Pogue Collection. Both sides are fully struck, educing sculptural roundness from Libertys portrait, individualized feathers from the eagles chest, and pointed peaks from the center of each star. As the cartwheel turns, an attentive eye will find a few interruptions, but none of significant consequence. Some minor marks are noted on Libertys portrait, but the scant few hairlines should not be confused with the raised die finish lines present in the upper obverse fields. The reverse is a full grade finer than the exemplary obverse, free of any notable marks whatsoever. In combination, the quality of the obverse and reverse makes this one of the finest preserved dollars of this entire design type.Light golden toning shades much of the obverse, which remains fully brilliant near the truncation of Libertys bust. The reverse is also an even champagne shade, though silvery at first look. Splashes of somewhat richer toning are visible near the arrow cluster and eagles tail. The reverse shows heavy cracks, including a long arc that spans from beneath the olive branch around the left periphery to the space between STATES and OF. A related arc branches off at A of STATES and traverses the base of T, below ES OF, and reaches across AMERIC before reaching the rim. The short vertical crack through the first T of STATES is the heaviest crack seen, with thin lower branches reaching through clouds 1 and 2 and ultimately to star 1 below. Others trudge delicately past the left top serif of the first T in STATES, across the wing at left through P of PLURIBUS, from the wingtip across the base of D in UNITED to the arrow bundle, and through the olive branch talon to the rim. This is the latest state documented by Bowers, equivalent to his Die State IV.The tradition of American numismatists traveling to Europe in the hopes of finding unappreciated rarities is as old as American numismatics itself. England has always received particular attention, and rightly so, as English numismatists have included American coins in their own cabinets since at least the 17th century. Archbishop John Sharp of York began collecting coins from the North American colonies in the late 1680s. Others followed suit in the 18th century, including Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818), whose early American coins are among the highlights of the cabinet at the British Museum. The most famous English collection of early American coins is surely the Lord St. Oswald collection, assembled by William Strickland before descending through the Winn family until its sale in the 20th century. Strickland brought current coins home to England after a visit to the United States in 1794 and 1795, but he also sought out earlier American coins, including Massachusetts silver coins. Benjamin Collins, the Washington DC copper specialist who was active in the 1880s and 1890s, built his superb collection with the help of one serendipitous purchase: a substantial grouping of gem quality early large cents that had been salted away in the cabinets of W.S. Lincoln & Sons, London. John W. Adams recounted the scene in his 1984 paper "Benjamin H. Collins: A Brief Essay on the People and Traditions of Large Cent Collecting:""Somehow, Collins had the composure to buy 28 cents, 5 half cents, and a moderate assortment of early silver for the grand sum of $300. The 28 cents included MS-65 examples of 1793 (a chain), 1794, 1795 (2), 1796, 1797, 1800, 1801, 1802 (2), 1806, 1807, and 1808. A second trip to W.S. Lincoln in the spring of 1892 secured a roughly equivalent haul."Despite generations of American dealers and collectors making hopeful pilgrimages to London, and setting aside the protestations of Mr. Shorthouse in the pages of the American Journal of Numismatics in 1887, choice early American pieces continue to turn up in the present day. This gem dollar, a coin of stunning brilliance and incomparable quality, ranks among the four finest 1799 dollars ever encountered by PCGS. It was utterly unknown to American specialists of previous generations and has never before been auctioned in the United States.

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