1804
DRAPED BUST SILVER DOLLAR -
The "Stickney - Eliasberg" Example
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Notes:
On May 9, 1843, Matthew Stickney, a coin collector who could only
be called "advanced" by today's standards, visited the
United States Mint and traded a 1785 "Immune Columbia" Cent
overstruck on a 1775 British gold Guinea (plus some other American
Colonial coins) for an 1804 Silver Dollar. Stickney claimed
to have acquired the Immune Columbia from the New York bullion
dealers, Beebee & Parshall, the day before. The gold
Immune Columbia still resides in the National Numismatic
Collection at the Smithsonian Institution and no other has ever
appeared on the market. Stickney's 1804 Silver Dollar sold
on April 6, 1997 for $1,815,000 as part of the Eliasberg
collection and now resides in a PCGS Proof-65 holder in a private
collection.
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
Breen, Walter, "Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S.
and Colonial Coins", 1st edition, 1988, F.C.I. Press, p. 119
Auctions by Bowers and Merena, Inc., "The Walter H. Childs
Collection" sale catalog, August 30, 1999, pp 110-111 |