1794 50C Overton 105 MS (PCGS#39206)
The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale
- 拍卖行
- Bowers & Merena
- 批号
- 1004
- 等级
- MS62
- 价格
- 1,284,283
- 详细说明
- 1794 Flowing Hair Half Dollar. O-105. Rarity-5. MS-62 (NGC). <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">First year of issue for the United States Half Dollar, and a key-date coin in all grades, the 1794 Flowing Hair was produced to the extent of just 23,464 pieces. The second-year 1795 Flowing Hair would see a much larger delivery of 299,680 pieces, but in 1794 there was little indication that the Half Dollar would develop into the denomination of choice among contemporary bullion depositors well into the 19<sup>th</sup> century.<br /><br /> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Numismatic scholars have identified 11 die marriages of the 1794 Flowing Hair Half Dollar, with O-105 being in the second level of availability after O-101 and alongside O-103 and O-104. The obverse die of this O-105 variety is easy to identify since star 2 is solidly attached to the lowermost hair curl. In this marriage, the obverse is mated to a reverse on which a leaf in the wreath is joined to the right base of the letter I in UNITED.<br /><br /> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> The Spring 2010 revision to the reference <i>Auction & Mail Bid Prices Realized for Bust Half Dollars: 1794-1839</i> by Stephen J. Herrman lists the Eliasberg specimen as the finest-known 1794 O-105 Half Dollar. That coin, certified AU-58 by PCGS, made its most recent auction appearance as lot 2003 in Stack’s November 2007 sale of the Amherst and Waccabuc collections. The author of <i>Auction & Mail Bid Prices Realized </i>is obviously not aware of the Cardinal Collection specimen, however, for it does not appear to be included in the census of known examples of the O-105 die pair.<br /><br /> We believe that this coin is the only example of the variety certified as Mint State by the major grading services, which makes it an obvious candidate for Condition Census #1. It is also one of no mor
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