Lot 1518
1928 Hawaiian Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-64. Mostly untoned and frosty. Here, too, soft satin-like fields careen with lustrous silver color as indicated in the photographs both obverse and reverse. All this is perhaps obvious from the assigned grade of Mint State 64. What we need to emphasize also is that the strike is customarily crisp and detailed for the 1928 Hawaiian issue with the usual sharp metal flows into the deepest recesses of the dies on both sides.
As alluded to in another section in this sale, through a misunderstanding between the natives and some of the crew members on Captain Cook's second voyage to the islands in 1779, he was stabbed in the back and killed -- to be dismembered, and (if the history books do not lie) some of his parts were fed to the dogs! Later negotiations caused the islanders to return his heart and bones to the dumbfounded shipmates. The ship set sail back to England for a sad, if well-attended, funeral (PCGS # 9309) .
Estimated Value $2,500 - 2,700.
From the 9/09 Hawaii Collection.
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