1829 50C O-103 Small Letters MS(PCGS#39781)

August 2018 Mail Bid Auction 47

拍卖行

Sheridan Downey

批号

90

等级

AU58

价格

8,369

详细说明

Ex Floyd Farley and Dr. Tom Sears.  Supremely smooth surfaces.  Unbroken luster lies beneath a veneer of pale grey toning.  Floyd Farley, BHNC #2, added the coin to his collection in 1966, about the time Al Overton published his 1st edition.  Farley’s insert notes the initial attribution, “O.6.”  He also memorialized Elton Dosier’s grade for the coin, “AU 55.”  (In those days no one used more than 2 AU grades: 50 and 55.)  Farley consigned the coin to Mail Bid Sale #28 in July 2000.  I offered lot 118 raw at the Farley/Dosier grade, AU 55.  Tom Sears prevailed.  PCGS thought more of the coin, tendering its AU 58 designation.  Farley’s insert and Sears’ notes accompany the lot.  Est. $900 to $1,200.