1879 $4 JD-1 Flowing Hair PR66CAM
(click for full-size image)
|
| Show/Booth: |
ANA Money Show
/
Convention Center
|
| |
(Item is available at this booth)
|
|
|
|
|
1879 $4 Flowing Hair, Judd-1635, Pollock-1833, JD-1, R.3, PR66 Cameo CACG. As much as 1879 Flowing Hair stellas appear at auction, the eye appeal and glittering reflectivity of a high-end example never fails to dazzle. The typical non-Cameo piece is low-grade, impaired, or otherwise below what might be considered high-end quality. Cameo pieces are much scarcer, and such coins are rarities as fine as PR66, where the current coin resides. Merely a few handfuls of finer Cameo pieces are known. The stellas as a whole were brought about by Philadelphia patent lawyer and inventor, Dr. William Wheeler Hubbell's efforts to create an international trade coinage based on the metric system and struck in his patented goloid alloy. Patterns were struck in various metals, using two different obverse designs bearing two different dates. Of these, gold pieces dated 1879 with the Flowing Hair design were the coins struck and distributed to Congressmen. Research by Roger Burdette suggests 425 1879 Flowing Hair stellas were struck between December 1879 and May 1880. They were sold to Congressmen in sets with goloid metric dollars. One wonders if the concept of a four dollar gold trade coin alone might have gotten more traction with Congress if it were not tied to Hubbell's greater goloid vision. Recent offerings of Premium Gem Cameo or Deep Cameo pieces have been few in number, and we have seen only a handful of higher-grade pieces in recent years. One of the more recent PR66 Cameos we handled was a PCGS CAC coin in our August 2024 ANA Signature, which realized $264,000. Prior to that, a CACG coin in the same grade in our May 2024 Central States Signature realized $324,000. The latter piece is directly comparable to the current example in both quality and eye appeal. The current CACG-certified piece is beautiful. Sharp, softly frosted devices complement ample mirroring in the fields, while faint diagonal die striations appear under a loupe. Neither side exhibits ...
|
Enter the message you would like to email to this Dealer
(click for full-size image)
(click for full-size image)
(click for full-size image)
(click for full-size image)
|
|