(1787) Copper George Clinton - Indian Bolen Fantasy, RB MS(PCGS#887222)

(1787) Copper George Clinton - Indian Bolen Fantasy, RB MS (PCGS#887222)

November 2021 Baltimore U.S. Coins auction

详细说明: Exceedingly Rare George Clinton / "Standing Indian" Muling Just Five Struck Bolen's Own Specimen Undated (ca. 1869) George Clinton / Standing Indian muling by J.A. Bolen. Musante JAB M-14. Copper. Marked “B 5 STRUCK” on edge. MS-66 RB (PCGS). 27.0 mm. 157.7 grains. Soft rose and pale blue toning in the most exposed field areas while the peripheries and motif outlines are vibrant orange red. Superb eye appeal and technical quality, as this piece has been very little handled since it was struck. A bold impression, intensely lustrous and requiring no apologies. A final exceedingly rare entry in this series of mulings by Bolen. As with the previous two lots, the edge is marked with the mintage of five. We have no appearances in our online archives and Musante found none when researching his thorough reference work on the subject. The dies were cut in 1869 and these colonial copies and mulings seem to have been struck in very short order. The dies were reported to have been defaced and transferred to the Boston Numismatic Society shortly thereafter. Another opportunity to acquire any among this handful of extreme Bolen rarities could be decades away. Struck from the LIBER NATUS LIBERTATUM or "Standing Indian" die in the early state prior to the formation of the break over ATUM. Bolen's personal reference specimen. Board Position: C 3/5 Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from the personal reference collection of John Adams Bolen.