Trying To Locate Info On "Dill 11/17/1970" Coin Sales (Auction?)

@jim, it might also be helpful for us to know more about this coin. Can you please share the denomination, date, grade, etc. thx. With that said, this could have been a private sale, in which case it is likely impossible to chase down anything else.

Ok yes thx for adding this extra info. Based on what appears to be a lot # in that description, I agree it is most likely an auction from 1970. It is a long shot, but you might reach out to a purveyor of numismatic literature (like Kobe & Fanning), to see if they have an old catalog from this auction.

That's a question for PCGS. BTW a year or two ago I contacted several experts at EAC, and from the photos (I have more) there was no clear conclusion as to whether the strike was MS or PF. If EAC has representation at the next Long Beach show, I would be happy to show the coin in hand.

My plan is a reholder to note the C-1 variety, then send to CAC.

Really? Doesn't PCGS guarantee the grade? All I would request is a reholder to state the variety at the same grade. Not a crack-out.

Here's another picture, showing some wire rims. BTW I contacted Ed Furhman about 18 months ago, and from the pics he thought it is an MS example, but not real sure.

I found some breadcrumbs on the Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/543468?page=17
I downloaded the correspondence between Jules Reiver and R. Tettenhorst of St. Louis, MO., and found the Dill provenance linked to a several coins that sold in the Heritage sale of Jules Reiver Half Cents and large cents on 1/24/2006.

Hitting Heritage and just typing "Dill 11/17/1970" gets 7 results from that sale in the "View Past Sale Prices" section.
https://www.ha.com/c/search-results...veTab-071515

That search shows your coin and six others that had the same mention of Dill. One of them has some added commentary:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/half-cents...n-071515-new

Heritage commentary from that 1793 Cohen-2 Half Cent linked above says "Many of the Reiver coins were housed in white two-inch square envelopes with the pedigree recorded simply as a last name and a date. We have attempted to identify these pedigree sources more specifically, but in some cases their identities have alluded (sic) us.
Ex: Dill (11/17/1970). Envelope Included.(Registry values: P8)"

So if Dill is elusive, he's probably just some guy, I think. And go back to broader google searches, where I find a link to the Numismatist from 1997 that has mention of a guy named Basil Dill from Chamois MO.
https://archive.org/stream/Numismat...ber_djvu.txt

The text format of that Numismatist link is hard to parse, but down in the section where his name appears, it appears to be obituaries from that year (1997). "K 161876 Basil Dill, Chamois, MO
(joined 9-93)"

Searching the googles again for Basil Dill of Chamois, I find him on Find a Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial...basil-a-dill

His full name was Basil Adolph Dill. He appears to have been an ANA member from 1993 til his death in 1997. And he lived in Chamois, MO. I observe that Chamois MO is about 100 miles west of St. Louis. So I wonder, did Mr. Dill have friends in St. Louis? Specifically, was he a friend of R. Tettenhorst, with whom Jules Reiver had a close trusting relationship and correspondence (as linked above)? Note: I assume close and trusting because I saw in the document, Jules sent R. Tettenhorst a $5000 coin in the mail for his examination. I call that trust!

So, if I were any more intrepid than I am, I'd pursue these lines:
1. Try to find a link from Jules to Basil Dill (and his sister Cinnamon, and his brother Oregano, yuk-yuk)
2. Failing that direct linkage, see if anyone associated with Tettenhorst has any knowledge; maybe St. Louis area coin clubs or auctions
3. Taking more of a shotgun approach, ask the (older) members of the EAC community and the John Reich Collectors Society if any of them know the Dill name. (I'm a JRCS member and at one of the Zoom meetings earlier in the year they held a remembrance of Jules Reiver - many members knew him personally, and may just know others from Jules' acquaintance).

Have fun - and good luck!

- Sean

thats awesome!