Sheridan Downey Coins

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Date	Variety	Rarity	Grade	Description	Price
Flowing Hair Half-Dollar, 1794-1795
				*Go to the Latest News* section (May 24, 2026) to download the revised and augmented list of offerings from an "Old Fashioned" Fixed Price List.**	$0	Email Me
Capped Bust Half-Dollars, 1807-1836
1819/8 Lg. 9	O.102	R.1	PCGS AU 58	NEW 5/10/26. Silver-grey with “hard,” smooth surfaces save for contact marks on the cheek. Strong, unbroken luster. Well struck. The PCGS label incorrectly notes “Small 9.” Last sold during the August 1993 ANA Convention in Baltimore.	$2,450	Email Me
1819	O.110	R.4	PCGS AU 58	Even light grey toning. Slightly (for the grade) subdued cartwheel luster. Not a match for Keith Davignon's AU 58 that brought $4,406 in MB 38 but a nice, high grade example of this scarce die pair. Last offered in Bowers & Ruddy's August 22, 1978 ANA sale. PCGS cert # 43607884. TrueView photo copied and displayed here.	$1,625	Email Me
1830 Lg. O	O.123	R.1	PCGS MS 63	NEW 5/10/26. From the Dr. Charles Link collection though not noted on the PCGS label. A panoply of iridescent colors captures the eye. Under pinpoint light the hues are ethereal. The central devices are sharp. The coin, nonetheless, was struck from the latest state of the dies. Drawn stars and feathery die breaks, star 6 to headband and star 3 to 6, earmark the coin as the scarce BHNC die state 123.3. Color enthusiasts and die state devotees take note!	$1,995	Email Me
1831	O.120	R.6-	PCGS Gen. VF Details	Don Gunnet discovered the variety in 1970, too late for Al Overton to include in his 2nd Edition. When I entered the bust-half domain a dozen years later, the “1831-DG-1” population stood at 10. It’s taken 43 years to reach 20 or so. Heritage identified the Southeast Kansas Collection (Rex and Cindy Phillips) as the consignor of this coin in its Aug. 2018 Denver ANA sale where lot 5030 realized $5,170. The description is apt: The surfaces are smooth but lightly cleaned, although they remain pleasingly toned and suffer little from the effects. This is an entirely suitable representative of the O-120 die pair, sure to see spirited bidding. The bulge in the left obverse field helps explain the early removal of the die from service and its current-day rarity. It also allows for quick attribution. A rare opportunity to acquire a very rare die marriage!	$4,400	Email Me
1833	O.106	R.2	NGC MS 62	A pretty one! Even tan and gold toning with abundant underlying luster. Solid for the grade, the reverse being especially nice. Lovely surfaces, decently struck, with a full motto.	$1,350	Email Me
1833	O.115	R.5	ICG EF 45 cleaned	Off the market since October 2008. The coin was dipped and lightly wiped. The surfaces are otherwise charming, nearly free of contact marks. The soft strike, of course, is ubiquitous on this charismatic variety. Before their short-term marriage both dies saw service with different partners: the obverse on the 1833 O.113, the reverse on the 1832 O.111. You veterans will recall the "`33-115" as one of the elite rarities listed in the little green BHNC Supplements issued in the gap between the publication of Overton's 1971 2nd edition and Don Parsley's 1990 revision. How often have you seen TWO 115s offered in the same price list?!	$800	Email Me
1833	O.115	R.5	PCGS Genuine (VF Details)	Ex Donald Frederick and Charlton E. Meyer, Jr. A classic rarity, unknown to Al Overton when he published his 1st and 2nd editions in 1967 and 1970. Don Frederick discovered the variety in 1972. Tim Osborne purchased this coin from Charlton Meyer shortly after Meyer acquired the incomparable PCGS MS 63 example, ex-Downey-Schertz-Parsley, in September 1999. Meyer told Tim that this coin came to him from Don Frederick, leaving open the question whether it was the Discovery Coin. It now appears that Don kept the lesser quality Discovery Coin (Fine details with altered surfaces) when he sold this coin to Meyer. Frederick’s notes on the discovery piece accompanied its sale by Heritage in April 2010, lot 3308. Dr. Charles Link was the winner, later consigning it to my Mail Bid Sale No. 43, August 2016, lot 72. The Frederick-Meyer-Osborne coin, offered here, has kraft envelope toning that nicely obscures hairlines from an improvident cleaning. The surfaces are otherwise free of distractions.	$900	Email Me
1836 50/00	O.116	R.2	PCGS MS 61	Another offering from the Millholland Collection, with the same original look and surfaces as the preceding 1810 O.104a [already sold and delisted]. Unbroken, caky luster rolls across the fields and devices. Minor contact marks account for the conservative grade. The R.2 rarity rating is misleading when on the hunt for choice AU or Mint State examples of the "50 over 00." It takes but one hand for me to count the number of UNC examples I've handled.	$3,500	Email Me
1836 Bar Dot	O.121	R.5+	PCGS VF 35	The KEY to completing a set of 1836s. Even, medium grey toning blankets the wonderfully smooth surfaces. The grade is spot-on, falling a hair short of XF. A minuscule toning spot under the eagle's right claw identifies the coin. It brought $2,585 when Heritage offered it in its August 2017 Denver ANA Sale.	$1,850	Sale Pending Email Me
Donald L. Parsley Collection of Capped Bust Half-Dollars, 1807-1836
1823	O.109	R.5	ANACS EF 40 Details	An R.6 die pair in Overton's 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions. The `23-109 remains a great rarity in XF or better. An improvident cleaning knocks the value of this example down $1,000 or more. Parsley had to pay $2,695 for the coin in the mid-1990s. Even light grey toning.	$1,750	Email Me
1827 Sq. Base 2	O.124a	R.5	PCGS AU Details	An important coin with a distinguished pedigree. Henry Hilgard located the coin in the 1980s. He sold it to Charlton Meyer in March 1991 for $2,500. The coin next appeared in my Mail Bid Sale 34, lot 25, August 2009. Dr. Glenn Peterson prevailed at $2,558, When Dr. Peterson sent it to PCGS the graders concluded that it was (lightly) cleaned. It came back with its current Gold Seal label, noting the Overton attribution and the Peterson provenance. The coin was undoubtedly considered for a "straight grade" of AU 53 and may yet achieve that status in a future submission. It shows only light wear and retains generous portions of its original mint luster. In a private transaction, Dr. Peterson sold the coin to Don Parsley for $2,800 a few years ago. PCGS TrueView photo here: https://www.pcgs.com/cert/41100595.	$2,500	Email Me