Lot Number 30
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1827 Sq. Base 2 - O.148 R.6 PCGS XF 45
Ex Dr. Charles Link A problem-free, wholesome XF coin struck on an unspoiled planchet. (Oddly, a number of “148s” were struck on spoiled planchets.) Even wear, natural toning, flickers of luster and nice surfaces provide no room to quibble over the assigned grade. Its only rival for top spot in the Condition Census is the lightly cleaned AU specimen that Elton Dosier acquired in 1976 and sold (via your cataloger) to Barry Broyde in 1988 (enabling Dosier to acquire an 1817/4). The Dosier/Broyde specimen, encapsulated by PCGS as AU details cleaned, sold in Stack’s/Bowers sale of the “Horatio Morgan” (pseudonym for Broyde) collection, November 2019, lot 7163 for a paltry $9,000. (Okay, I was the buyer.) The Link coin, offered here, surfaced in the spring of 2011. I received it on consignment and arranged the sale to Link for $18,000. With fewer than 20 pieces known, the `27-148 is second to the `27-149 in rarity (6 known), just ahead of the 1827 O.137.
Estimate: $12,000 and up
