1810 50C O-104a MS(PCGS#39410)

August 2019 Mail Bid Auction 49

Auctioneer

Sheridan Downey

Lot Number

13

Grade

AU58

Price

2,750

Lot Description

From the Long Island Collection.  Earlier in the fabled collection of BHNC co-founder Floyd Farley.  Last offered (raw) as choice AU in Mail Bid Sale No.22, Oct. 1998, lot 159; it brought $935, a strong price 2+ decades back.  Steel-grey toning is awash in luster.  The devices are decently impressed, obverse and reverse.  The surfaces are smooth.  CAC was impressed.  You will be too.  Farley’s personal insert accompanies, noting his purchase at the 1978 ANA Convention from “Sturtridge.” Est. $3,000 to $3,500.