Lot Number 7
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1811 Small 8 - O.105a R.2 PCGS MS 62
Ex Keith Davignon Lot 3 from Keith Davignon’s consignment to MB 40, January 2018. Lance again headed a pack of discriminating collectors, winning the coin for $4,532, nearly double its estimate. An electric ring of album toning frames the untoned, intensely lustrous centers. This is the look that sparked runaway prices in Heritage’s sale of Eric Newman’s bust halves. The surfaces are all but free of contact marks. Liberty’s portrait is sharply struck with fully rounded curls, top to bottom. Davignon found it at the March 1995 Bay State Show.
Estimate: $3,500 and up