1806 25C MS (PCGS#5314)
Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4220
- 等级
- AU53
- 价格
- 37,703
- 详细说明
- Tompkins Die Stage 3/3, Rea et al. Die State b. <strong>Tompkins Plate Coin</strong>. Plenty of frosty to mildly semi-reflective luster remains on both sides of this lightly circulated example. As with so many die pairings in this challenging series, the 1806 Browning-4 is typically found weakly struck through the centers, as here. The obverse stars are devoid of finer detail, but in general the definition is bolder at the peripheries than it is in the centers. The surfaces are untoned silver gray in appearance apart from blushes of peripheral reddish-apricot iridescence that are deeper and more extensive on the reverse.<p>This variety represents the only use of the obverse die, and the second use of the reverse die, which was first employed in the 1806 B-3 pairing. In the 1806 B-4 marriage the reverse is readily identified by evidence of significant die damage within the lower left portion of the shield. This variety is very scarce, due to the early retirement of the obverse die when it developed a bisecting crack early in the press run. This crack is readily evident on the present example, from the upper border outside the letter R in LIBERTY, to the lower border below the digit 6 in the date. The reverse went on the produce more coins in a remarriage of the 1806 B-3 pairing.<p>In addition to absolute scarcity, the 1806 B-4 variety is conditionally challenged with most examples in the lowest circulated grades, and so much so that the 2008 Tompkins Condition Census ranges in grade from AU-53 to VF-35. This is the CC#1 Tompkins coin, and it is tied for CC#2 in the 2010 Rea et al. census behind a quartet of coins the authors grade as AU-55. This variety is unknown in Mint State.<p><strong>Steve M. Tompkins Commentary:</strong> When I first saw this coin offered I immediately called to try and acquire it. However, another collector had beaten me to it and the coin was out on approval. Luckily for me that collector did not recognize the scarcity of this die marriage in higher grade and apparently did not like the weak strike, sending it back. I was thrilled when the coin finally arrived at my door and felt like I had found a real treasure.
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