1849 CINCINNATI MINING AND TRADING
COMPANY TEN DOLLARS
Varieties:
Plain Edge - Unique
Reeded Edge - Six known
Off-Metal issues:
None known
Notes:
Obverse - light vertical crack
from the bottom edge, through the Indian's neck, through the G of MINING
to the border. Another light break runs from the rim, through the
left upright of the M of COMPANY, into the field.
Reverse - shattered.
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Known examples:
1. U.S. Mint Cabinet -
National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.
Reeded edge (Breen incorrectly lists this as a Plain Edge - see his
#7774)
2. Henry Chapman, Jr.
- Virgil Brand in 1920 - Newcomer - Josiah K. Lilly - National
Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Reeded
edge.
3. Louise Erna Brand
in 1966 - John J. Ford. Possibly ex - Jacob Fishel (who
claimed to be a descendant of one of the minters) in 1908 -
Virgil Brand. Reeded edge.
4. W. Elliott Woodward
(1884) - Capt. Andrew Zabriskie (1909) - Col. James W. Ellsworth -
John Work Garrett - Bowers & Ruddy Galleries sale of the Garrett
Collection, March 1980, Lot 885, "257.6 grains.
EF-40", plated, sold for $270,000 - Donald Kagin - anonymous
collection - resold in 1999 by Donald Kagin into another anonymous
collection. Reeded edge.
5. Newcomer collection
(per Saul Teichman) - Charles Williams
(possibly acquired from B. Max Mehl) - Abe Kosoff and Sol Kaplan in
1951 - Lammot DuPont - Willis DuPont - stolen on October 5, 1967 and
never recovered. Plain edge.
6. Newcomer collection
(per Saul Teichman) - Charles Williams
(possibly acquired from B. Max Mehl) - Abe Kosoff and Sol Kaplan in
1951 - Lammot DuPont - Willis DuPont - stolen on October 5, 1967 and
never recovered. Reeded edge.
7. Spink & Son (of
London) in August 1914 - Virgil Brand - Armin Brand - Jane Brand
Allen - Auctions by Bowers & Merena, Inc. "Brand II",
1984, Lot 1539, sold for $104,500 - Kenneth Goldman - anonymous
collector, who misplaced the coin in a pair of golf shoes, which
were later donated in 1998 to the Jaycees of Fort Pierce, Florida in
response to a call for tornado relief. The coin was recovered
by Patricia May, one of the relief workers, who took the coin home
and placed it in a desk drawer where it sat for three years, even
being overlooked during a robbery. While surfing the Internet,
May discovered how valuable the discarded coin was and arranged to
have it returned to its rightful owner through the Professional
Numismatists Guild and members Doug Winter and Donald Kagin.
Reeded edge, struck over a J.S. Orsmby $10!
Sources and/or recommended
reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia Of U.S. And Colonial
Coins" by Walter Breen
"Private Gold Coins and Patterns of the United States" by
Donald H. Kagin
May
24, 2001 Press Release from the Professional Numismatists Guild
"Coin
World", June 25, 2001, pages 1 and 100
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