1788 VT 1/2P Bust Right, BN MS (PCGS#563)
The November 2012 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 6698
- 等级
- F15BN
- 价格
- 13,921
- 详细说明
- 1788 Vermont Copper. RR-36, Bressett 10-P, W-2180. Rarity-6. Bust Right. Fine-15.
109.6 grains. Uniformly granular olive-brown surfaces with moderately lighter high points. Obverse evenly centered, no heavy marks present other than the natural surface roughness, reverse rim tight to bottoms of date numerals and tops of INDE, not noticeably marked other than the roughness. The actual design sharpness of the present piece is finer than the first of the three Carlotto plate coins, and rivals the sharpest of those three. That reference notes: "Although not a super rarity, the Ryder-36 is still pretty tough to locate. My estimate is that 20 to 25 coins are extant. Planchet quality is poor on most specimens. The reverse figure is always shallow in detail. This is one of the varieties unknown to Richardson, and was discovered by Ken Bressett while examining coins at the Bennington Museum in Vermont." This piece is finer than the Scherff specimen, sold by us in the March 2010 Stack's sale for $2,300. The superb Bonjour coin netted $18,400 when it sold in the Stack's 75th Anniversary sale in November 2010, graded just VF-20 but unusually nice for a Ryder-36. This piece is somewhere in between, fairly typical for this rare variety in terms of surfaces, sure to fill a gap in a fine collection. This variety was not present in the Boyd-Ford holdings.
PCGS# 563.
Provenance: From the Dan Freidus Collection. Earlier from our (Stack's) sale of the Carl Bayuk Collection of Vermont Coppers and Early American Coins, May 2000, lot 165. Lot tag and paper envelope with attribution and pedigree notes included.
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