1805 $5 MS(PCGS#8088)

1805 $5 MS (PCGS#8088)

August 2011 Chicago ANA - Rarities Night

拍卖行: Stack's Bowers

批号: 7656

等级: MS64

价格: 422,387

详细说明: 1805 Capped Bust Right Half Eagle. Miller-71, HBCC-3092, BD-2. Rarity-4. MS-64 (PCGS). High quality, absolute rarity and superb eye appeal combine to make this a truly memorable early half eagle. Richly lustrous yellow-gold patina with a decided olive cast, and with an abundance of bold mint frost in the recessed areas. Nicely struck, as well, with no serious lack of detail in any quarter; this beauty even holds up admirably to magnified examination.     One of the two Bass-Dannreuther “Perfect 1, Close Date” varieties, BD-2 os thought to exist in a quantity of 100 to 150 examples in all grades. Bass-Dannreuther Obverse State f, "now heavily reclashed; another bisecting crack from star 13-neck-star 4;" Reverse State c, "now heavily reclashed." Heavy die rust is apparent also at the letters LIB on the obverse, with die clash above BERT and reverse die clash prominent at the lower border.     First offered by Stack’s in 1961, this lovely early half eagle returns to our auction arena after 50 years. Only two examples of the date have been graded finer than the present piece by PCGS, both of those by a solitary grading point; we feel the numerous MS-64 specimens listed include some resubmissions. If quality and eye appeal are big factors in your numismatic purchases, we suggest you raise your paddle high and steady for this piece. Numismatic Reflections by Q. David Bowers A lovely coin, an old friend from back in 1951. Coin World ran a feature story on a gold coin that was auctioned in 1961, and now recently back on the market. Coin World did not have enough space in even its large monthly issues if we were to send them news items on every coin we sold from 1933 to 1961, again appearing in our auctions. This is almost an everyday occurrence. That said, there is something very special about a coin being off the market since 1951, or since 1961

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