Stack's Bowers Galleries

Spring 2023 Auction  –  20 - 25 March 2023

Stack's Bowers Galleries, Spring 2023 Auction

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Part 1: Mo, 20.03.2023, from 6:00 PM CET
Part 2: Tu, 21.03.2023, from 4:00 PM CET
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Description

"1776" (ca. 1867) Washington / Libertas Americana Muling. By John Adams Bolen. Musante JAB M-4, Musante GW-798, Baker-56. Silver. MS-63 (PCGS).
25.4 mm. Light pearlescent-gray surfaces with light pastel violet, blue-green and rose accenting the prooflike fields. Sharply struck and attractive even though the fields exhibit gentle handling. Bolen is believed to have struck six examples in silver, with further pieces by John W. Kline. The present example, on a thick planchet like the MS-64 specimen offered above, is likely a Bolen product.
From the Martin Logies Collection. Earlier ex S.H. and H. Chapman's sale of the Charles I. Bushnell Collection, June 1882, part of lot 1497; William Spohn Baker Collection, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by bequest, November 15, 1897; our sale of the Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, November 2019 Baltimore Auction, lot 20560. Stack's Bowers Galleries lot tag included.

Estimate: $2000

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Price realized 6'500 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 2'000 USD
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