1803 10C JR-2 MS (PCGS#38763)
The August 2013 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4058
- 等级
- AU53 CAC
- 价格
- 216,139
- 详细说明
- The Finest Known 1803 JR-2 Dime, Rarity-6
The Pittman-Logan-Price-Matthews Coin
1803 Draped Bust Dime. JR-2. Rarity-6. AU-53 (PCGS). CAC.
This is one of the lynch pins to the challenging die variety set of 1803 dimes. The surfaces are outstanding with satin smooth silver and bathed in gunmetal-blue and gray toning as commonly seen from old time collections. The strike strike is sharp on Liberty's curls and especially so on the reverse where the eagle and shield are bold. There is only one other comparable example of this die pairing, that is the Miles-Lovejoy coin that is AU but cleaned. Ed Price noted in his auction catalog that he greatly preferred this example to represent the variety, and having an opportunity to purchase either example, obviously agreed. It is clearly the finest known for the variety of which there are perhaps 20 distinct examples known from this dies. It is also one of the finer examples known of this date, as there are only four Mint State grading events between PCGS and NGC, with duplication likely, and AU coins number perhaps a dozen in all.
The obverse die continues unbroken on this marriage but fails spectacularly on the JR-3 marriage, as seen in a subsequent lot in this auction. For the reverse die, the crack strengthens through the CA of AMERICA continuing on to the I and leaf, the crack that developed on the 1802 JR-3 reverse continues to thicken here as well up through the arrow claw, shield, breast and middle row, lowest right star to the cloud above. The crack along the top of NITED extends lightly to the wing tip above. Another branching crack has formed through the E of UNITED down to the shield.
The year 1803 brought about one of many of President Thomas Jefferson's great successes, the completion of the Louisiana Purchase from France. This helped repay the great debt owed by the United States to France for their help in our own Revolutionary War, and vastly increased the land mass available for westward expansion, clearing the way for a century of rapid growth and exploration that so determined the developing American psyche and character today. Holding this dime as a date marker for such a huge sea change will always be a reminder of our more humble beginnings.
Ed Price in his catalog of 2008 talks about his purchase of this coin, Russ Logan purchased it out of the Pittman Auction in 1997. Meanwhile Ed Price owned the AU cleaned Miles-Lovejoy coin but was never very happy with it. Ed pestered Russ to sell him this coin for two years, finally a rare half dollar was coming up for sale that Russ really wanted and Ed was able to buy this dime from Russ for his collection.
PCGS# 4473.
Provenance: From James Kelly's Auction, November 1957, lot 790; John J. Pittman's Collection, David Akers, October 1997, lot 540; our (Bowers and Merena's) Russell J. Logan Collection, November 1999 privately to Ed Price ; Heritage's Ed Price Collection, July 2008, lot 1437 where it was graded AU-58 NGC at that time.
PCGS Population: 2; 8 finer (Mint State-64 finest) within the year designation.
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