1787 NJ 1/2P Pattern Shield, BN MS (PCGS#522411)
October 2018 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 7095
- 等级
- MS63BN
- 价格
- 417,884
- 详细说明
- Mint State 1787 Maris 6-C New Jersey
The Finest Known, Ex Mills (1904)
1787 New Jersey copper. Maris 6-C, W-5040. Rarity-5-. Pattern Shield. MS-63 BN (PCGS).
145.0 grains. The finest recorded example of this important New Jersey variety, the only Horsehead copper to use the reverse that marries the New Jersey series to the New York patterns, the Confederatios, the Nova Constellatios, and more. Traces of faded mint red persist around some of the legends, lending depth and contrast to the glossy chocolate brown surfaces. The obverse shows the die edge and a raised rim around the upper left, an easy pedigree marker that allows this coin to be easily matched to the 1904 Mills plate. The reverse is ideally centered and well struck, showing every individual denticle and nearly complete central detail. The surfaces are original and appealing, still showing some old surface dirt, but free of marks aside from two minor contact points below the farthest extent of the plow beam. Some scattered planchet pits, microscopic and as struck, are seen around the extraordinarily well detailed horsehead.
This piece is listed as the sole finest known example in the Siboni-Howes-Ish census, outranking the Maris-Garrett coin depicted on the Maris plate, as well as the Yale, Craige, O’Donnell, and Henry Garrett specimens. Its provenance ends with the 1904 Mills sale, its apparent last public appearance. Today, it resurfaces after a century-long absence from the marketplace.
Provenance: From the Archangel Collection. Earlier, from Stack’s, privately, December 1981; Henry and S. Hudson Chapman’s sale of the C.T. Whitman Collection, August 1893, lot 1162; Henry and S. Hudson Chapman’s sale of the John G. Mills Collection, April 1904, lot 377.
PCGS Population (Pattern Shield): 1, none finer.
PCGS# 522411
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