1834 Token HT-12A Silvered Brass Running Boar MS(PCGS#77625)

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

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

233

等级

MS63

价格

15,246

详细说明

1834 Running Boar. HT-12A, Low-11A, DeWitt-CE 1834-12, W-10-220b. Rarity-6. Silvered Brass. Plain Edge. 29 mm. MS-63 (PCGS). Coin alignment. This lovely MS-63 offers phenomenal quality and eye appeal for a challenging Running Boar variety. Virtually complete silvering is noted for the obverse, while the reverse has at least 80% of the silvering intact. Both sides are predominantly bright silver gray, the peripheries with light olive and russet highlights that are more prevalent on the reverse. Sharply, if not fully struck over all design elements with a frosty texture and smooth appearance. A minor, well concealed obverse spot outside the second letter C in COMMERCE should serve as a useful identifier in future market appearances. HT-12A is one of the most difficult Running Boar varieties to collect, and survivors rare in an absolute sense. The variety is also conditionally challenging, perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the Dice-Hicks specimen was an Extremely Fine. The Bowers specimen in Choice Mint State vies with the equally Choice Ford specimen (Ford IV, June 2004, lot 43) as the finest examples of HT-12A of which we are aware. Outstanding! This variety combines the obverse of HT-9 and 10 (pig's snout pointing to the letter C in CREDIT) with the reverse of HT-11 (Jackson's portrait with wide shoulder). Provenance: Ex David Schenkman, 1976 ANA Convention; Stephen L. Tanenbaum estate, 2013. Collector tag with attribution and provenance notes included. Click here for certification details from PCGS.