1798 $5 Small Eagle AU53 认证号43413214, PCGS号8071
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Ron Guth
The 1798 Small Eagle $5 is one of the rarest of all regular-issue United States Coins. It is not a pattern, it is not a novodel, it is not a restrike, nor is it a concoction made for sale to collectors -- it is simply a low-mintage $5 gold piece struck in 1798 that went directly into circulation and all but disappeared.
As of 2015, only seven examples are known of the 1798 Small Eagle $5. Two are in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. One is tied up in the Harry Bass Research Foundation. The Atwater example has not been seen since it appeared in a B. Max Mehl sale in 1946. The Garrett example disappeared "into the woodwork" circa 1983 when a mystery buyer flew into Lexington, Kentucky, purchased the coin, then flew off into the sunset in a private plane. In fact, the only example to appear on the market since 2000 is the PCGS AU55 D. Brent Pogue example that sold in September 2015 for a record $1,175,000 (and which itself had been off the market since 1979). Thus, the opportunity to purchase an example of this coin is exceedingly rare, and it would be difficult to pry one onto the market because we simply don't know where they are.
David Akers (1975/88)
Without a doubt, this is one of the most famous and highly publicized U.S. Half Eagles. It has always been held in high esteem by collectors and it realized as much as $5,250 as far back as the Ten Eyck sale in 1922. (As an aside, the Ten Eyck specimen, called Fine in that catalogue, is the same coin as the Baldenhofer specimen graded AU.) All of the 6-7 known specimens are VF-EF and all have a raised semi-circular line below the date. (This also appears on one of the varieties of the 1798 Large 8.)
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#1 AU55 PCGS grade
Raymond Caldwell (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Collection - Col. James W. Flanagan Collection - Stack's 3/1944:1063 - Clifford T. Weihman Collection - Stack's, sold privately after 1946 - King Farouk of Egypt Collection - Sotheby’s “Palace Collections of Egypt” 2/1954:229 - Paul Wittlin - William G. Baldenhofer Collection - Stack's 1/1955:1203, $6,000 - John H. Murrell Collection - Goliad Corporation (Mike Brownlee), sold privately in 8/1979 - D. Brent Pogue Collection (as PCGS AU55 31529819) - Stack's/Bowers & Sotheby's 9/2015:2074 (as PCGS AU55 31529819), $1,175,000 |
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#2 XF40 estimated grade
B. Max Mehl, sold privately in 1924 for $5,250 - John H. Clapp Collection, sold intact in 1942 - Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection - Bowers & Ruddy 10/1982:330, $77,000 - Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection - Harry W. Bass Research Foundation |
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#2 XF40 PCGS grade
John Dannreuther - Dr. Gene Sherman (via Tony Terranova) - Dr. Jon Kardatzke (via Tony Terranova and Dave Liljestrand)Goldbergs 5/1999:710 (as PCGS XF40), not sold (plate-matched to the following) - Goldbergs 6/2000:1290 (as PCGS XF40), $264,500 |
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#2 XF40 estimated grade
Joseph J. Mickley Collection - William Sumner Appleton Collection - T. Harrison Garrett Collection - Robert Garrett Collection - John Work Garrett Collection - Johns Hopkins University Collection - Bowers & Ruddy 11/1979:437, $110,000 - Paramount “Auction ‘83” 7/1983:367 (as Extremely Fine 40), $71,500 - Kevin Lipton - Mid-American Rare Coin Galleries - mystery buyer |
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#5 Very Fine (estimated grade
John Butler (a druggist from Burlington, NJ) - George H. Earle Collection - Henry Chapman 6/1912:???, $3,000 - Col. James W. Ellsworth Collection - William Cutler Atwater Collection - B. Max Mehl 6/1946:1612, $3,100 |