Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 4

The Dr. Jon Kardatzke Coin and Currency Collection, Part 1

Early Half Dollars

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 894		1794 Flowing Hair Half Dollar. Fine-15. Retoned to a black biscuit. Excellent hair detail on Liberty and feather detail on the eagle. Ever popular as the first year of issue, with a mintage of 23,000 and change. Most were worn well below this grade, lost or melted. Few are available for collectors. Later die state with the reverse crack near the first S of STATES and another through the last S and F of OF. View details	Realized $3,910
Lot 895		1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar. VG-8. A nicely balanced coin with even gray toning and clean devices. View details	Realized $776
Lot 896		1801 Draped Bust Half Dollar. EF-45. Darkly toned in a not to subtle attempt to hide numerous pin scratches on the obverse. A rare coin in this grade, were it not for the damage. View details	Realized $1,380
Lot 897		1802 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Fine-15. Original color and clean surfaces. View details	Realized $633
Lot 898		1803 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Large 3. PCGS graded AU-50. Smoky gray toning throughout and boldly struck. There are some minor drill marks on both sides, as too often seen on these. View details	Realized $1,495
Lot 899		1805/4 Draped Bust Half Dollar. VF-30. Somber gray toning, which is likely original. Typical strike with some weakness on the eagle, and a rim tick at the top of the reverse. A coin most collectors will appreciate. View details	Realized $575
Lot 900		1805 Draped Bust Half Dollar. EF-40. Hairlined in the fields and with a natural light silver color throughout. Well struck from a cracked reverse die. At the low end of the Condition Census for the variety and certain to attract variety specialist attention as such. View details	Realized $518
Lot 901		1805 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Sharpness of VF-20 but cleaned. The cleaning resulted in hairlines, as always, no surprise here. But, the color is now a pleasant dark silvery gray which offsets the devices from the fields. Better than most. View details	Realized $242
Lot 902		1806/5 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Fine-15. Cleaned with an abrasive erasure with mountainous hairlines everywhere resulting. Yuk! View details	Realized $184
Lot 903		1806 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Pointed 6, stem through claw. EF-40. Pretty toning and nice surfaces, making this a choice coin for the collector. Some weakness in the stars over the eagle's cute little head. View details	Realized $1,093
Lot 904		1806 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Knobbed 6, large stars. VG-8. Minor handling marks. View details	Realized $115
Lot 905		1806 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Knobbed 6, large stars. Good-5. View details	Realized $98
Lot 906		1807 Draped Bust Half Dollar. EF-40. Antique gray toning on both sides. Decently struck for the date, and well balanced. One rim tick near the Y of LIBERTY. View details	Realized $506
Lot 907		1807 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Good-5. Evenly worn with an obverse scratch near the rim at 4 o-clock. View details	Realized $92
Lot 908		1807 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Large stars. VF-30. The obverse has been retoned to cover over pin scratches, which can still be seen on Liberty and in the left obverse field. Lighter on the reverse with hints of luster. Scarce. View details	Realized $230
Lot 909		1807 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Large stars, 50 over 20. VF-30. Steel gray in color with nice surfaces throughout. Seldom found better. The over-denomination is clear. View details	Realized $311
Lot 910		1807 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Large stars, 50 over 20. Fine-12. View details	Realized $132
Lot 911		1808/7 Capped Bust Half Dollar. VF-20. Toned. View details	Realized $98
Lot 912		1808 Capped Bust Half Dollar. EF-40. Toned to cover over several dull scrapes and scratches on the obverse, rather successfully though. View details	Realized $265
Lot 913		1808 Capped Bust Half Dollar. VF-25. Cleaned to an annoying brilliance that left minor hairlines. Starting to retone. View details	Realized $368
Lot 914		A Group of 10 Bust Halves. Includes 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1813, 1817 Punctuated Date, 1818/7 small 8, 1819/8, 1820 over 19 curl 2, 1821. Grading Good to Very Fine. Worth examining for Overton numbers. View details	Realized $460
Lot 915		1809 Capped Bust Half Dollar. EF-40. Lightly cleaned and retoned with strange blue and russet hues, out of some space-age movie for their false brilliance. View details	Realized $196
Lot 916		1810 Capped Bust Half Dollar. EF-45. Minor scratches which are toned over. Lustrous and desirable. View details	Realized $144
Lot 917		1810 Capped Bust Half Dollar. EF-45. Well struck, light silver in color and very nice indeed. Minor hairlines, as seen on virtually every Bust Half. View details	Realized $299
Lot 918		1811 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 8. VF-35. Speckled toning that ranges from light to medium gray. A nice coin for the grade. View details	Realized $69
Lot 919		1811 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 8. MS-60. Choice surfaces for the grade, the usual flatness on the high points as seen on all these, but toned a light gold color and with blazing luster beneath. These early halves are becoming increasingly difficult to locate in high grades as more collectors try to locate specimens. View details	Realized $552
Lot 920		1812/1 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 8. VF-20. A scarcer variety, toned. View details	Unsold
Lot 921		Immaculate "War of 1812" Bust Half. ICG graded MS-67. Brilliant silvery luster with delicate lilac hues, sharply struck, and nearly perfect. Even under a 14x loop, the cataloguer can find hardly anything in the way of a detraction worth mentioning--oh maybe some minuscule contact ticks by Liberty's mouth. Multiple diebreaks on the obverse, including the bisecting swoop of a fine diebreak from the 6th star right through Liberty's head to the second 1 in the date. A real Gem, a beauty which inexplicably escaped the awful war of this year, when the Redcoats re-invaded their former colonies and even burned the White House. View details	Realized $11,788
Lot 922		1812 Capped Bust Half Dollar. AU-58. A truly nice coin for the grade, it boasts lovely toning atop lustrous fields. Struck a touch off-center towards 8 o'clock on the obverse. If one must find fault, there are light hairlines in the field. Bold, cascading curls on Liberty. View details	Realized $242
Lot 923		1812 Capped Bust Half Dollar. AU-55. A lovely and exciting coin, LIBERTY is strongly clashed in the shield lines and below to the right quite clearly. A touch of rub on the highest curls, just like all the so-called mint state coins we see. Frosty luster in the fields, well struck and very nearly new. View details	Realized $345
Lot 924		1812 Capped Bust Half Dollar. VF-35. A pleasing example and toned. View details	Realized $81
Lot 925		1813 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Sharpness of Fine-12 but cleaned and marked up. Bent, bonked and banged. One for the not so serious numismatist. View details	Realized $29
Lot 926		1814/3 Capped Bust Half Dollar. EF-45. Frosty luster and choice for the grade, the only complaint are very light hairlines in the fields. Splendid toning around the periphery. View details	Realized $575
Lot 927		1814 Capped Bust Half Dollar. AU-50. Frosty surfaces with a light haze of toning. One tiny pit mark on the motto, near the P of PLURIBUS, another on Liberty's ample breasts. Struck from strongly clashed dies. View details	Realized $299
Lot 928		1814 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Fine-15. View details	Realized $52
Lot 929		1814 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Sharpness of Fine-12 with initials on the obverse. The initials "EC" lightly etched before Liberty's face, possibly for the European Commonwealth, an idea which was bantered about around this time. Today we have the European Union, which has finally begun. Okay, maybe this was owned by Eric Clapton. View details	Realized $29
Lot 930		Rare Key Date 1815 Half Dollar. EF-40. Cleaned and retoned with a hint of pink on the reverse, more natural silvery-gray on the obverse. Struck from clashed dies, as were most of this variety. The key date this series, mintages plummeted due to the mint fire which took place on January 10, 1816, just hours after this half dollar was delivered, hence no half dollars, and little else, was coined in 1816 while the mint tried to repair the damage to its rolling mills. Demand during 1815 was light due to the minor conflict we had with England from 1812 forward. View details	Realized $2,415
Lot 931		1817/3 Capped Bust Half Dollar. VF-20. One of the dag-gondest silly overdates in American numismatics. This 1813 was pressed into service probably because of the mint fire in 1816, which crippled the rolling mills for over a year. Heightened chaos must have reigned during this time. Smoky gray toning in the fields, lighter devices give this coin an excellent appearance. Hairlines, endless hairlines, as seen on virtually every bust half. View details	Realized $265
Lot 932		1817 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Dated 181.7. Fine-12. Cleaned, but not in an obnoxious way leaving luster in the fields and a gentle gold tone around the periphery. View details	Realized $63
Lot 933		1817 Capped Bust Half Dollar. NGC graded MS-64. O-106. R-2. A delightful, near-Gem bust half dollar with a huge, comet-like diebreak from the cap's peak. The iridescent colors are a dream: glowing yellow-gold peripheries surrounding bright bluish green fields with the central devices of both sides bathed in lilac mauve. Lots of long diebreaks in the reverse legends. Only a few stray abrasions beneath the toning on the obverse keep this from the MS65 classification. Aside from the magical "1817/4" association of this year, the bust halves are perfect testaments, artistically, to their age. America had really just begun its westward expansion, meaning the Ohio and Mississippi Territories. James Madison gave up the Oval Office to another Founding Father, James Monroe. In Philadelphia, the Second Bank of the United States opened the doors to its marble edifice in the heart of the old city, at 3rd & Chestnut Streets, just five blocks from the first mint building at 7th & Locust. In old New York, the Erie Canal's construction achieved authorization. No coin symbolizes the colonial past reaching into a bold future better than the Capped Bust fifty-cent pieces of John Reich, who came to America as an indentured servant and gained immortality through his art. View details	Realized $4,370
Lot 934		1817 and 1834. Pair of Bust halves. 1817 O-111, VG-8 and 1834 O-109 F-15.The first has been cleaned and has a minor obverse scratch. Group of 2 coins. View details	Realized $52
Lot 935		1818/7 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 8. AU-50. A choice coin that any collector who loves quality will keep 'til the bitter end. View details	Realized $529
Lot 936		1818/7 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 8. EF-40. Frosty and lustrous without the usual problems. Hairlines. View details	Realized $150
Lot 937		1818 Capped Bust Half Dollar. AU-50. Early die state and prooflike in the fields. Boldly struck on the stars and on all the devices. An impressive coin that has only minor hairlines. View details	Realized $253
Lot 938		1818 Capped Bust Half Dollar. VF-35. View details	Realized $89
Lot 939		1819 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 9 over 8. EF-45. Retoned to a somber gray color that reflects rose and gold under a light. Normal surfaces beneath. View details	Realized $144
Lot 940		1819 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 9 over 8. EF-40. Choice luster around the periphery which is toned in vibrant shades of gold, red and green. Minor hairlines and a rim bruise below the lowest olive leaves. View details	Realized $173
Lot 941		1819 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Small 9 over 8. VF-20. Old toning. View details	Realized $69
Lot 942		1819 Capped Bust Half Dollar. EF-45. A winter blast of luster on both sides, with a bit of gold toning on the right side of the obverse, and an arc of darker color on the lower reverse. Nice surfaces for the grade. View details	Realized $253
Lot 943		1820/19 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Square 2. Fine-15. Clear overdate, but cleaned to an unnatural white color. A big rim bruise over NI of UNITED. View details	Realized $35

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