Anybody have the Reed Hawn catalog handy?

tradedollarnut

If so, PM me please!

PreTurb

which one?

Broadstruck

Yes the Stacks Oct 1993 is on my desk.

MrEureka

Yes, I have the catalog.

MrEureka

We're talking about the 1973 catalog, I presume.

tradedollarnut

Broadstruck

<< <i>We're talking about the 1973 catalog, I presume. >>



Yeah that's not in the 1993 catalog.

MrEureka

I'd say that it's 50/50 that your coin is from that sale, but has since been dipped. Some of the toning has a similar pattern, but nothing is conclusive. When you get the picture, compare it to the coin in hand. As you tilt the coin, you may see more traces of old the old toning, and it may lead you to a more certain answer.

MrEureka

BTW, I was 12 when I got my copy of that catalog in the mail!

MrEureka

FWIW, this census is from the Heritage description of the Kaufman coin:

PR66 NGC. The present specimen. Norweb Collection (Bowers and Merena, 11/1988), lot 3159; Kaufman Collection.

PR65 NGC. Eliasberg Collection (Bowers and Merena, 4/1997), lot 1956; Bowers (8/1999), lot 206; Goldberg Coins (2/2002), lot 1002; Heritage (5/2003), lot 6212; Heritage (7/2003), lot 7646; Heritage (9/2003), lot 7098; Heritage (2/2005), lot 7098.

PR63 NGC. J. Hewitt Judd Collection; Stack's (10/1990), lot 1651; Richmond Collection (David Lawrence, 3/2005), lot 1795.

Proof. Reed Hawn Collection (Stack's, 8/1973), lot 178. Possibly the same as the Judd-Richmond example.

Proof. Smithsonian Institution.

Breen recorded two additional examples in his Proof Encyclopedia. One of these is the "N.Y. state specialist" (Pittman) coin, cataloged by David Akers as Mint State. The other is pedigreed to the Parmelee collection and described by Breen as a "badly cleaned piece" with a later pedigree to Stack's October 1956 sale of the Lohr collection. The plate in the Lohr catalog has many similarities to the Judd-Richmond specimen. Breen did not list the Reed Hawn coin or the Eliasberg proof.