Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 4

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

Small Cents

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 223		1909-S Lincoln Cent. VDB. MS-63 Red and Brown. The key date of the Lincoln cent series in really choice condition. Full mint red and well struck. The fields show virtually no signs of contact, the only hint of toning is a very faint fingerprint on the left obverse. 484,000 struck, most of which were spent, and few indeed look this nice today. View details	Realized $834
Lot 224		1909-S Lincoln Cent. MS-64 Red. Full blazing luster and well struck. One very small spot on the U of TRUST, otherwise pretty much as struck. Scarce and desirable this nice. View details	Realized $575
Lot 225		1909 Lincoln Cent. VDB. Includes: 1909 V.D.B., 1910, 1912-D, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1919-S, 1920, 1923, 1924-D, 1925, 1926, 1927 D, S, 1930 D, S, 1932-D, 1933 P, D and 1948-S. Very Fine to Brilliant Uncirculated. Mostly uncirculated, and a good start on a date set. Lot of 20 coins. View details	Realized $184
Lot 226		1910 Lincoln Cent. PCGS graded MS-65 Red. A blazer and in a 1st generation "slab". View details	Realized $81
Lot 227		1910-S Lincoln Cent. MS-63 Red and Brown. Lightly toned over fiery red luster. Sharply struck. View details	Realized $196
Lot 228		1911 Lincoln Cent. PCGS graded Matte Proof 65 BN. Sometimes grading numbers confound the cataloguer. This coin, even under 14x magnification, is flawless--not a tick, not a hairline. The color is an exquisite chocolate brown with green iridescence and some remaining mint red. It's a visual masterpiece. View details	Realized $414
Lot 229		1911 Lincoln Cent. EF-40 to Uncirculated. The 1911-S is cleaned, and the "D" has some spots. Guess which one is nice? Lot of 3 coins. View details	Realized $92
Lot 230		1912-S Lincoln Cent. PCGS graded MS-64 Red. Minute carbon flecks but well struck and decidedly choice. View details	Realized $460
Lot 231		1913-S Lincoln Cent. MS-62 Red and Brown. Red for the most part without the usual heavy spotting. Sharp. View details	Realized $334
Lot 232		1914-D Lincoln Cent. MS-61 Red and Brown. Mostly red, with some toning starting to form. Boldly struck with each wheat ear complete, and even the tiniest curls on Mr. Lincoln complete. One hidden scratch down his forehead to nose is noted. One of the key dates to the series. View details	Realized $1,840
Lot 233		1914-D Lincoln Cent. EF-45. One of the key dates to the Lincoln cent series, this low mintage rarity wasn't saved in high grade at the time of issue. Most common in lower grades, this lovely, original coin will certainly attract attention from date collectors. View details	Realized $391
Lot 234		1915 Lincoln Cent. MS-60 or better. Some have minor spots, but are otherwise full red or just starting to tone. A nice Philly lot. Lot of 4 coins. View details	Realized $155
Lot 235		1915-D Lincoln Cent. MS-63 Red and Brown. Choice for the grade, well struck and pleasing. View details	Realized $184
Lot 236		1915-D Lincoln Cent. AU-58. So close to Mint State, original red remains on both sides. Well struck. View details	Realized $35
Lot 237		1916 Lincoln Cent. PCGS graded MS-65 Red. Firey mint red with some darker areas on the reverse. In a 1st generation "slab". View details	Realized $92
Lot 238		1916 Lincoln Cent. AU-50 to Uncirculated. A few have light wear, but most are choice for the grade. Excellent for a date set. Lot of 7 coins. View details	Realized $920
Lot 239		1917 Lincoln Cent. PCGS graded MS-65 Red. As fresh as a daisy. In a 1st generation "slab". View details	Realized $109
Lot 240		1917-D Lincoln Cent. MS-60. Sharply impressed on the obverse, the reverse with minor weakness. View details	Realized $29
Lot 241		1917-S Lincoln Cent. MS-64 Red and Brown. Mostly red, with some very minor spots on the obverse. Well struck and scarce. View details	Realized $414
Lot 242		1919 Lincoln Cent. PCGS graded MS-65 Red. Some spotting is starting to form on the obverse with some deeper toning on the reverse rims. In a 1st generation "slab"l. View details	Realized $75
Lot 243		1919 Lincoln Cent. MS-60 or better. Each is fully red and choice for the grade assigned, and would make a welcome addition to a date set. The "D" mint has a few spots on the reverse rim. Lot of 3 coins. View details	Realized $144
Lot 244		1920 Lincoln Cent. MS-60 or better. A variety of colors and a few with spots, but still nice for the date collector. Lot of 4 coins. View details	Realized $121
Lot 245		1921-S Lincoln Cent. MS-63 Red and Brown. Lightly toned, but still retaining most of the original mint freshness. A tough date to find this nice, and perfect the date collector. View details	Realized $276
Lot 246		1922-D Lincoln Cent. MS-64 Red and Brown. Really a nice coin for the grade, mostly red in color with few signs of contact or toning. One of the rare dates that is certainly in demand by date collectors. View details	Realized $604
Lot 247		1923-S Lincoln Cent. AU-55. Light tan to reddish in color with boldly struck devices on both sides. A scarce date in high grade. View details	Realized $52
Lot 248		1924-D Lincoln Cent. NGC graded MS-64 Red. One of the scarce dates of the Lincoln cent date set, this 1924-D will be a welcome addition to the advance collection. Frosty and original on the obverse, the reverse with only slight mellowing in the color. View details	Realized $1,553
Lot 249		1924-D Lincoln Cent. MS-60 Plus Red and Brown. A lovely coin that boasts most of the original red color and sharply struck devices. The curls on Lincoln's beard seem a bit flat, but the important date and mintmark are extra crisp. Sought-after as a low mintage date that wasn't saved in any great quantity, hence mint state coins are truly rare. View details	Realized $414
Lot 250		1924-S Lincoln Cent. MS-60 Brown. Fully struck and with hints of mint color, but mostly light tan. View details	Realized $75
Lot 251		1925 Lincoln Cent. AU-50 to Uncirculated. The 1926-S appears to have some wear, the others look uncirculated. All are nice. Lot of 6 coins. View details	Realized $253
Lot 252		1927 Lincoln Cent. MS-60 Plus or better. Mostly red, with some light toning and clean surfaces. Lot of 6 coins. View details	Realized $299
Lot 253		1929 Lincoln Cent. MS-60 Plus or better. Mostly red in color, a delightful group that were struck as the worst depression of the century began. Lot of 6 coins. View details	Realized $63
Lot 254		1931 Lincoln Cent. MS-63 or better. Mostly red. Lot of 3 coins. View details	Realized $460
Lot 255		1932 Lincoln Cent. MS-63 or better. Mostly red. Perfect for the date collector. Lot of 4 coins. View details	Realized $196
Lot 256		1934 Lincoln Cent. MS-60 to Proof. A lovely set of Lincoln Cents, all Mint State with a few Proofs sprinkled in at the end. There is no 1955 Double Die, nor is there the 1972 Double Die. Missing only a couple of minor coins as follows: 1959 Proof, 1961 Proof and 1970-S Proof Small Date. All the rest are there, in full blazing red, very few indeed show any signs of spotting and this set was carefully assembled by gloved handed numismatists and never exposed to the usual problems which soon show up in the form of fingerprints or other detriments. Mounted in a Capital Plastics frame (2 frames). View details	Realized $334
Lot 257		Finest Known 1943-S Copper Cent. NGC graded MS-61 Brown. We are thrilled to offer this major cent rarity for your bidding pleasure. Its variety number is Breen-2164 (who estimated 6 known). Attractive surfaces for the grade, mostly brown with few marks, even microscopic, but most crucial of all--this coin is fully struck with crisp details in every aspect of the coining design, obverse and reverse. The reason for this, of course, is that the striking pressure for the dies was tuned for minting much-harder zinc-coated steel cents, which were the normal issue for this middle year of World War Two, when bronze alloy was needed more for manufacturing shell casings for the war effort than for making minor coins. Furthermore, the steel and zinc coated planchets were thinner than the prior standard issue bronze cents, making the strikes on 1943 bronze cents exceptionally sharp. The fabulously rare bronze cents of 1943 have gained a vast, new popularity in the past few years, as it becomes increasingly recognized by advanced collectors of U.S. coinage that here, in a minting period which produced few coins of any interest aside from their sometimes immensely appealing designs, lies a major rarity. Part of this new recognition stems from the searching and research published by error collectors, who prize these bronze issues more than almost any others. Indeed, these coins are now seen as some of the rarest American issues, in the absolute sense. That is, they are not just "condition rarities"-coins that are elusive in certain grades. No, these bronze cents are rare, rare, rare in any grade! Among them, the Philadelphia pieces, it stands to reason, are the most "easily" found--but are in hot demand. The Denver issue may be the rarest of the three. (Breen thought 24 made at Denver existed, but that has now been discounted.) The only known 1943-D bronze, in Uncirculated, fetched a then-impressive $82,500 at auction in May 1996. Since then, its rarity has become much more highly prized; the present owner of that coin has revealed that he would not sell it today even for $200,000. If that appears inflationary, or overvalued, consider this: it is the only one known after more than 50 years of frantic searching by American collectors; so it is a pure supply-and-demand situation, with that coin's owner snuggling in the catbird seat! Thus we arrive at a consideration of the presently offered specimen--the only known Uncirculated 1943-S bronze cent, and therefore the finest in existence! In Uncirculated, it is just as rare as the 1943-D bronze. In the absolute sense, its rarity is still awesome: just 4-6 exist, the others being EF to AU. How many will "come out of the woodwork" in the next fifty years? We suspect none! This coin came to light back in 1943--yes, 1943--when a sharp-eyed individual named Merl D. Burcham plucked it from a mint-sealed bag of 1943-S steel cents being handled at the main office of the Bank of America in San Diego, California. That this piece was in fact minted from a bronze blank intended for a 1942 cent (stuck in the Mint's hopper at San Francisco at year's end) can probably be safely deduced from the fact that a tiny fleck of zinc is to be seen lodged in the bronze, just above the 3 in the date. As a final thought, we would like to go on record right here by proposing that this type of error coin should be renamed. It has traditionally been classified as an "off-metal" piece, but in reality it is not "off" anything. No, we think a more apt terminology might be to call this a "fabric error"--for it is the fabric of its composition that sets it apart. The word "fabric" comes from the Latin word fabrica, which meant "workshop" or "forge"--so what could be more appropriate to a coin struck in the wrong metal than the term "Fabric Error"? For a detailed historical background on this coin, see Walter Breen's commentary on pages 226-227 of his monumental Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins. So, here it is. The Finest Known 1943-S bronze cent--found in the year of issue in a mint-sewn bag of 1943-S steel cents, and saved for all time by a sharp pair of eyes. What is it worth as we begin the new century? Tell us, please! View details	Realized $115,000
Lot 258		1955 Lincoln Cent. Doubled die obverse. MS-65 Red and Brown. A gem example of this popular die blunder. The surface are very choice indeed, showing few signs of contact even with the aid of glass. Overall, the color is mostly red, with just a hint of mellowing as this coin nears half a century old. This variety is truly the king of double dies, it is one of the most sharply doubled dies, and one that is readily available, for a price. Worth a strong bid from a date specialist. View details	Realized $2,530
Lot 259		1955 Lincoln Cent. Doubled die obverse. ANACS graded MS-61 Brown. Hints of original mint luster in the fields, but all is toned over a medium brown. Minor tick marks on both sides. View details	Realized $1,035

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