1798 SILVER DOLLAR -
BOLENDER 30
Rarity:
Variety Equivalents:
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Images courtesy of Heritage
Numismatic Auctions, Inc.
Significant examples:
PCGS XF-45 (now raw) (illustrated
above) Ex - Waldo C. Newcomer - B. Max Mehl - Colonel E.H.R. Green -
Stack's "Baldenhofer" - A.J. Ostheimer III
(check chronology on these) - New Netherlands 48th Sale of the
"T. James Clarke" collection, 1956, "Uncirculated" -
Superior Galleries' "C.E. Gilhousen", 1973, "Uncirculated,
lustrous and as sharp as this variety comes" - 1975 ANA Convention
sale, "AU 50...lustrous, sharp as this variety comes" - Heritage
Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "Santa Clara" Signature Sale,
November 16-17, 2000, Lot 5983, "XF 45 PCGS" at $4,025.00 - P.
Reid Suttles, who broke it out of the holder and considers the coin to be
About Uncirculated. No pedigree was listed in the Heritage sale, but
the chain of prior owners was re-discovered by P. Reid Suttles, the
current owner of the coin.
Sources and/or recommended
reading:
"Lost and Found - A
Provenance Renewed" by P. Reid Suttles, John Reich Journal,
January 2001, Volume 13, Issue 2, pages 16-18
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