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From Superior
Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale", June 5-7, 2000, Lot 1580,
where it was described as follows:
"1796 Draped Bust Small
Eagle Large Date Small Letters Bolender-5 XF45. Two insignificant
pin lines above the second T in STATES on reverse. Pleasing antique
silver-gray finish, all original, smooth and even without spotting
or irregularity. A very choice example of this second Bust Dollar
Type. The B-5 1796 is noted for its large date, small letters
pairing; there is a die lump at right top of I in AMERICA -- a
diagnostic feature which makes this variety easy to identify.
Coinage during 1796 was larger in total amount than was 1795's
Draped Bust, Small Eagle Type, but was executed under increasing
difficulties: die breakage; continuing anxiety over possible
abolition of the Mint; and one of what proved to be a series of
annual epidemics of yellow fever, forcing closure of the Mint each
fall for a couple of months, and killing valuable personnel.
"Previous coins showed 15 obverse stars;" explains the
Breen encyclopedia, "but on June 1, 1796, Tennessee was
admitted to the Union as the sixteenth state, and subsequent dies
bore 16 stars on other denominations. This change reached the silver
dollars only in 1797, suggesting that the 1796-dated dies were all
completed before Tennessee's admission."
Price Realized = $5,520.00 Recent
appearances:
EF-45. Ex - Superior
Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale", October 1-3, 2000, Lot 3487,
"Bolender 5", illustrated, sold for $3,680.00 EF-45.
Ex – American
Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,”
July 25, 2003
, Lot
527, "BB-65, B-5, Rarity-4", illustrated, sold for
$4,370.00
ANACS VF-35. Ex - Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s
"Long Beach Signature Sale", May 31-June 2, 2001, Lot
6287, illustrated, sold for $2,875.00
Net VF-25, sharpness of EF-40. Ex - Bowers & Merena
Galleries' "The Cabinet of Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part III",
May 21, 2001, Lot 3, "BB-65", illustrated, sold for
$2,070.00
NGC Fine-15. Ex -
Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale", October 1-3, 2000,
Lot 3489, "Bolender 5a", illustrated, sold for $1,380.00 |
