1836 25C Browning 5 MS (PCGS#39009)
The June 2013 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1224
- 等级
- VG8
- 价格
- 32,449
- 详细说明
- 1836 Capped Bust Quarter. B-5. Rarity-6+. VG-8 (PCGS). Natural light silver-steel combines with traces of golden-gray around the devices of the obverse and reverse. The surfaces show smooth wear from circulation and the usual handling marks expected for the grade assigned. For identification a shallow scratch is noted through AM of AMERICA. Years and years of specialized die variety collecting has failed to confirm many examples from these dies since their discovery in 1988. To date there are between 15 and 18 known in all grades, and most variety specialists have been unable to obtain an example in any grade. Auction records are sparse as well. As most of the known specimens are tightly held in advanced Capped Bust quarter variety collections, the opportunity to procure an example of this variety is seldom offered.<br />
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This die pairing is quite rare and is easy to attribute. The obverse die was first used to coin the Browning-4 variety and developed a prominent bisecting crack that runs in a vertical fashion through Liberty's cap and out the rim just right of the date; another branching crack is always seen through the first star crossing the upper two points to Liberty's neck where it joins the primary crack. On the reverse an unusual arcing crack is found through STATE, which also develops on a previous use of this reverse. In sum, this variety is easy to attribute, both dies always come with distinctive die cracks, and thus it is unlikely that many more will be discovered. Hence, demand will always be strong when <em>any </em>example of the Browning-5 variety is offered. This example has the variety attribution on the PCGS insert.
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