1802 $1 BB-241 MS(PCGS#40088)

The Regency Auction 41

Auktionator

Legend Rare Coin Auctions

Losnummer

23

Erhaltungsgrad

MS65

Preis

270.250

Losbeschreibung

FROM THE BRUCE MORELAN COLLECTION Ex Eliasberg and Pogue Collections, as noted on the insert. One of the FINEST, most beautiful, and impressively pedigreed GEM 1802 dollars that exists! A simply stunning coin that is a real prize, even among Bruce's WORLD CLASS, AMAZING early dollars. With a pedigree that dates to the first half of the 19th century and has only appeared in auction three times since 1907, it has been a part of some of the absolutely FINEST and most FAMOUS of coin collections, beginning with Matthew A. Stickney and ending with our consignor, Bruce Morelan! Described in Henry Chapman's June 1907 catalog of the Stickney Collection, lot 1116, as "Perfection, and while I have seen several superb dollars of this year, yet feel that this is the finest specimen. A gem." The cataloger of the Eliasberg Collection, which is its second auction appearance (April 1997, lot 2196), the following was said: "A superb specimen with light lilac and gray toning over lustrous and somewhat golden surfaces. Satiny and smooth, a gem of simply exquisite character." Today, there is little else we can add, save that this coin shows a robust strike, imparted by a solid blow from the dies. Each hair detail is fully and crisply formed, as are the star centers, drapery folds, feather details, leaf veins, arrows, and dentils are all sharply defined. There are a few very minor marks, which will forever serve as a hallmark for this specimen, identifying it as the Stickney-Clapp-Eliasberg-Pogue-Morelan coin. PCGS 4, NGC 5, CAC 1. This coin sold for $329,000 in the March 2017 sale of the Pogue Collection. Among all 1802 dollars, there is just a single MS65+ graded higher, the Floyd Starr-Philip Flannagan-Cardinal-Simpson coin, which sold for nearly a quarter million dollars over 15 years ago! Cert. Number 32709112 PCGS # 40088.00