1841 Token HT-20A Daniel Webster MS(PCGS#77225)

August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

241

等级

MS62

价格

25,411

详细说明

Sharply Struck Mint State HT-20A Daniel Webster A Classic Rarity in Silver 1841 Daniel Webster. HT-20A, Low-62A, DeWitt-CE 1838-12, W-11-630f. Rarity-7. Silver. Plain Edge. 29 mm. MS-62 (PCGS). Coin alignment. This is a lovely piece, both sides with pale rose, sandy-russet, olive-gold and charcoal highlights to a base of antique silver. The fields are bright and show full flash to the luster. Nearly full in strike and quite smooth for the assigned grade, a shallow planchet irregularity in the field below the letters WEB in WEBSTER serves as a useful identifier. HT-20A is a classic rarity, although interestingly most of the 10 to 12 specimens extant are in high grades. This type, along with HT-33A (also a silver striking), appears to have been produced for Mr. Henry Davenport. Both types made their first appearance in a numismatic auction in W. Elliott Woodward's sale of the McCoy Collection in 1864, where Woodward noted the Davenport origin. The Ford-Bowers specimen offered here is finer than the Dice-Hicks specimen which, although also Mint State, is noticeably soft in strike on the rigging of the ship on the obverse. This piece is far more sharply struck, the overall detail close to full, as previously stated. Despite its rarity in an absolute sense, HT-20A is perhaps the only silver striking in the Hard Times series that can rightly be considered collectible. This is one of the best produced and preserved -- in short, one of the finest -- and it is nearly comparable to the fabulous Choice Uncirculated Litman specimen (PCAC, December 2003, lot 51). Sure to see spirited bidding among specialists. Provenance: Acquired from Bob Schuman in trade, January 2014. Earlier ex Dupont Collection; Tilden Collection; Donald Miller Collection; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part IV, June 2004, lot 128. Earlier collector tag with (partially incorrect) attribution and provenance notes included.