"1737" AR 3P JAB-10 Higley, Bolen Copy MS (PCGS#535246)
November 2021 Baltimore U.S. Coins auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 10198
- 等级
- MS64
- 价格
- 24,465
- 详细说明
- Superb Higley Struck in Silver
Ex John J. Ford, Jr.
“1737” (ca. 1864) Higley Copy by J.A. Bolen. Musante JAB-10. Silver. MS-64 (PCGS).
28.4 mm. 96.3 grains. Lovely satiny surfaces with softly mottled deep champagne and gray toning, while areas of brighter silver outline some of the motifs. Overstruck on an unidentified host coin which had reeded edges, but there is little remaining detail from which to decipher the undertype. Elements are noted at the center of the deer and at the reverse center, but there are also marks to suggest that the host was filed down a bit prior to striking. The host was thin, and the details of this finished product are soft in the center, particularly on the reverse. Still, the overall quality is excellent, as is the eye appeal.
Just two examples are reported to have been struck by Bolen in silver, this taken from the Johnson listing published in 1882. However, no silver impressions were reported in the 1868 AJN listing. It is believed that Dr. Edwards also produced some after the dies were sold to him. According to Musante, Bolen later reacquired the dies and claimed to have defaced them himself and struck off a few from the defaced dies. Such impressions do exist, but they seem quite rare. This one is from the dies in their uncanceled state.
Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier ex New Netherlands Coin Company; John J. Ford, Jr., our sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIV, May 2006, lot 571.
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