Stack's Offers the Vincent Collection on July 10Quality
United States coins from Colonials to Patterns will be highlighted in Stack's July 10, 2008 sale of the Vincent Collection, held at the Schaumburg Renaissance hotel, Schaumburg, Illinois in conjunction with the MidAmerica Coin Expo. Among the 385 lots are such early copper rarities as an 1804 Sheldon 266c Large Cent in Fine-12 (PCGS); Lincoln Cents include the 1914-D in MS-66 BR (NGC) that is tied for the finest graded by NGC.
Silver
Half Dimes feature an 1840 No Drapery in MS-67 (NGC, CAC); among popular
Mercury dimes is a 1921 in MS-67 (NGC) that is among the finest extant examples. Sure to attract bidder attention if a Cameo Proof 1910
Barber quarter in PF-68* Cameo (NGC);
Barber half dollars are highlighted by the John J. Pittman example of the 1907=-D in MS-68 (CAC, NGC); Liberty Seated Silver Dollars include n 1854 in Proof-64 (NGC).
Morgan dollar collectors will note an 1880 in Proof-68 CAMEO (NGC) and n 1880-S in MS-69 (NGC) toed for finest certified by that leading service; the second-finest Deep Mirror Prooflike 1893-O appears in MS-64 DMPL (NGC); later dates feature an 1896 in Proof-68* ULTRA CAMEO (NGC). Proof Gold includes an 1899 Quarter Eagle in Proof-65 DCAM (CAC, PCGS. Among outstanding Gold $3 is an 1880 in MS-65 (NGC); early Half Eagles include 1802/1, Bass-Dannreuther 8 in MS-62 (CAC, PCGS); early Eagles are led by a 1798 BD-10 in MS-63 (CAC, PCGS); Saint Gaudens Double Eagles include a Gem 1915 in MS-65 (NGC), tied for finest known.
The Vincent Sale is very well represented by rare and choice American paper from the Colonial era to modern times. A brief, but attractive, selection of Continental Currency and Colonial American notes is followed by a fine selection of United States Obsolete Currency from the outstanding Q. David Bowers Reference Collection. The initial offering of obsolete notes from the Bowers Collection was an important event last October in Atlanta. The great interest in rare, historic and artistic obsolete notes was further flattered in our recent May Minot Sale where several notes broke the five-figure mark, an achievement considered next to impossible less than three decades ago.
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Posted 06/27/2008 4:31 pm
