(C. 1862) Lovett’s Washington / Bolen’s Liberty Cap muling. Copper. 28mm. Musante JAB M/E-16, GW-678; Baker-275A. MS-64BN (NGC).，Exceptionally attractive chocolate brown with intense blue iridescence within the broad ornamented rim of the portrait side. The reverse is similarly toned, with mottled violet, rose, gold and green in the prooflike fields. A single trivial patina spot is noted on the reverse as are some very minor handling marks, but this is a very well preserved example with excellent aesthetic appeal. The first of two in the present sale, but rarely offered at all. This type did not appear in our January 2011 sale of the Q. David Bowers Collection (though this one was once his, passing through a different channel), nor was there one in our offering of the Neil Musante Collection in 2014.From the Tim Gabriele Collection. Earlier ex Q. David Bowers.
