1876 Medal GW-887, HK-99 Silver Harlem Plains MS(PCGS#642249)
1876 Medal GW-887, HK-99 Silver Harlem Plains MS (PCGS#642249)
November 2020 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4413
- 等级
- MS66
- 价格
- 15,737
- 详细说明
- Circa 1876 Harlem Plains Medal. George Lovett's Battle Series, No. 4. Musante GW-887, Baker-443, Silver. HK-99. Plain edge. MS-66 (PCGS). 34.1 mm. 229.5 grains. Another perfect match to the partial Garrett set. Lovely mottled rose, blue, violet and golden brown toning over deeply prooflike surfaces. Just a couple of trivial marks are noted under magnification. As with the others in this series, this is an extreme rarity in silver. Lovett’s Battle series comes with two obverses, this, commonly referred to as the first, and another with a smaller portrait to left. We are aware of no mintage estimates for the first-obverse medals in silver, but W. Elliot Woodward wrote in his 1878 Henry Holland sale that those from the second obverse in silver were unique. Considering the extreme rarity of these medals in silver, the situation is almost certainly not much different here. Perhaps two sets were struck, as we had another example of this medal in our 1975 Stanley Scott sale, while a lone silver example of Moore’s Creek was offered in our Jack Collins fixed price list. Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Ruddy's) sale of the Garrett Collection, March 1981, lot 1881 (part). PCGS# 642249. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.