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Lot:5041 1802 Draped Bust Silver Dollar. Bowers Borckardt-241, Bolender-6. Rarity-1. Narrow Date. Mint State-

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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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Perfection, and while I have seen several superb dollars of this year, yet I feel that this is the finest specimen. A gem. - Henry Chapman, 1907Living up to the appeal promised by its legendary provenance, this majestic and fully lustrous gem stands among the finest survivors of this design type. Its cartwheel is indefatigable, resembling that found on a dollar struck a century later. The apparent brilliance of the surfaces yields richer peripheral toning of deeper gray and navy blue under a good light. The visual appeal would be difficult to exceed. Free of significant marks and showing only the most trivial hairlines, this pieces preservation is spectacular. A few light marks are noted at the central obverse, including a vertical abrasion that jogs down Libertys neck, but the fields are pristine. Struck resoundingly on both sides and free of adjustment marks and planchet issues, this coin is as good an exemplar of the design as any in this offering.The die state is typical, equivalent to Bowers Die State III, with no visible cracks though the base of E in LIBERTY and the outline of Libertys neck weakened by lapping. The circular curl in Libertys hair closest to her bow appears to have been somewhat crudely re-engraved in the die by hand. Spalling and roughness of the reverse die surface is seen near ED of UNITED and the nearby wingtip, along with some lapping lines among the wing feathers near the juncture with the upper left corner of the shield. Two parallel cracks join the wingtip at left to the rim, one of which crosses P of PLURIBUS. A short crack or die injury extends from cloud 3 into the field between stars 2 and 3.The only example of this date to ever receive a higher grade, or at least whatever decimalized advantage a plus sign suggests, is the T. James Clarke-Starr-Flannagan-Cardinal BB-241, a multicolored gem responsible for two different listings in the Bowers censuses of 1993 and 2013. This piece presents a very different sort of aesthetic, and its easy to imagine different connoisseurs choosing either this coin or that one as the one that best suits their preferences.By 1907, Henry Chapman had been a full time numismatist for 30 years. His career began in the shop of John Haseltine as a teenager alongside his brother, who most called "Hudson." They undertook to begin their own company, established as a partnership, in 1878. It endured until the summer of 1906, when each hung out his own shingle on amicable terms. They were barely out of adolescence when they cataloged and sold the collection of Charles I. Bushnell in 1882, a collection that had largely been assembled decades earlier. They studiously presented the cabinets of Thomas Warner, English collector E. Shorthouse, the great Thomas Cleneay of Cincinnati, Nicholas Petry, John G. Mills, the former dealer Harlan Page Smith, and dozens more. After embarking on his own, Henry Chapman was hired to offer the cabinet of Matthew A. Stickney, a legend in the field, who had collected eagerly in the 1830s and 1840s, to 1854. Many of the choicest American coins extant found their way into his cabinet in Salem, Massachusetts before he retired from active collecting more than a decade before the death of Lincoln. Stickney traded with the Mint Cabinet, managing to improve both his collection and theirs, obtaining coins that would be impossible to find anywhere else.Thirty years into a numismatists career, it is easy to suffer from a jaded eye. Henry Chapman was 48 years old in 1907. He had seen the best cabinets and known the great collectors. His Quaker modesty made his cataloging straightforward, sometimes terse, rarely fit with fancy. His description of this coin stands out against the backdrop of his typical cataloging style: "Perfection, and while I have seen several superb dollars of this year, yet I feel that this is the finest specimen. A gem."This extraordinary survivor was acquired by John H. Clapp at the Stickney sale and remained off the market for 90 years. This auction represents its third offering since before 1854.

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