August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Handsome AU Newman 1-C Continental Dollar
"1776" (i.e. 1783) Continental Dollar. Newman 1-C, W-8445. Rarity-3. CURENCY. Pewter. AU Details--Holed (PCGS).
251.5 grains. A remarkably attractive type coin for the grade, both sides are richly and originally toned with glints of pewter gray on dominant silver-olive color. Faint traces of luster persist across both sides, generally in the fields. The strike and centering are excellent, with all design elements bold. We see none of the oxidation or pest often associated with Continental dollars in this metallic composition, and the small, neatly executed hole just before 12 o'clock relative to the obverse is the only detraction of note. The Newman 1-C is the more common of the two varieties using this obverse known in pewter; another, Newman 1-A, is known only in brass. Two examples of Newman 1-C are known in silver. The reverse is a heavy reworking of reverse B, with the "partially dotted rings" now closed and made solid, along with significant filing or lapping of the die surface. The die rotation has advanced in a clockwise fashion by a few degrees from the nearly medal turn rotation seen on Newman 1-B. The obverse die state is also later, with a break above GI of FUGIO, as usually seen.
PCGS# 915766. BASE PCGS# 791. NGC ID: 2AYN.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Heritage's sale of the Keith McIntosh Collection, January 2002 FUN Signature Sale, lot 5215; Long Island Numismatics (Gary Parietti), January 28, 2002.
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| Price realized | 15'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 15'000 USD |
