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Lot:5494 1860 Denver City Assay Office $5 Die Trial. K-1. Rarity-8. Copper. Plain Edge. AU-55 BN (NGC).

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SBP2019年8月ANA#7-白金之夜

2019-08-16 07:30:00

2019-08-16 11:00:00

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1860 Denver City Assay Office $5 Die Trial. K-1. Rarity-8. Copper. Plain Edge. AU-55 BN (NGC).One of the most significant offerings for the private and territorial gold coinage enthusiast in this sale, this is the first example of the K-1 Denver City Assay Office $5 that we have offered since the Ford XX Sale of October 2007. This piece is clearly distinct from the Ford specimen, which was seriously clipped, apparently as made. The offered specimen is on a full planchet that has toned nicely in a blend of steel-brown and deep golden-copper patina. The borders are well defined, and all design elements are sharp apart from a touch of softness in the centers that is a combination of slight striking softness and trivial wear. Satiny in texture and smooth in hand, this impressive rarity would serve as a centerpiece in the finest specialized cabinet.The Denver City Assay Office remains an enigma. The wide variety of types known bearing this outfits name is also curious. The issue was first recorded by J.W. Scott in 1893 and it is not impossible that it was a product of a time shortly before that date. Kagin (1981), however, asserts that these pieces may have been associated with a failed venture in Denver ca. 1860, based on a recollection of Milton E. Clark (of Clark, Gruber & Co.). The author further states than one August Kraatz may have been associated with the Denver City Assay Office (see below, in our description for K-2 example in this sale). Additionally, and contradictory to the foregoing, Kagin refers to a notation in the files of the Colorado Historical Society that associates the Denver City Assay Office with the Denver-based assay office of George W. and Samuel Brown. In all cases corroborating evidence is lacking and we may never know by whom and under what circumstances the Denver City Assay Office pieces were produced. Regardless, survivors of this issue are extremely rare today, which fact confirms the fleeting nature of this offering.From the Samuel J. Berngard Collection.

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