Q. David Bowers
1. Berg Specimen, EF-40
• U.S. Mint. (struck c. 1858, edge lettered in the mid- 1870s)
• Captain John W. Haseltine. Probably "laundered" through the following. (1875)
• Koch & Co., Vienna. (1875)
• O.H. Berg, Baltimore, Maryland. (1875-1883)
• J.W. Haseltine's sale of the Berg Collection, May 23-24, 1883, Lot 568, $740.00. Purchased by the following as agent for Garrett. (1883)
• George W. Cogan, acting as agent for Garrett. Sold to the following for $740.00 plus $25 commission, or $765.00. (1883)
• Thomas Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, Maryland, son of the founder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. (1883-1888)
• Thomas Harrison Garrett estate and Robert Garrett. (1888-1919)
• John Work Garrett, who retained it until his death Oil June 26, 1942, after which it passed with his collection to the following under terms of his will. (1919-1942)
• The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. (1942-1980)
• Bowers and Ruddy Galleries' sale of the Garrett Collec-tion, March 27-27, 1980, Lot 698, $400,000.00. (1980)
• Larry Hanks (Pullen & Hanks). Sold to the following on April 17, 1980, for a sum reported to be near $500,000.00. (1980)
• Sam Colavita, New Jersey rare coin dealer. Placed on consignment for a time with professional numismatist Ed Hipps; not sold. Consigned to the following. (1980-1982)
• Pullen & Hanks Long Beach Collector Series I Sale, Long Beach, February 6,1982, Lot 1076, $190,000.00, where it was bought back by an agent for the owner'! Sold soon thereafter by Sam Colavita to the following. (1982)
• Mike Levinson Collection, Texas. Sold to the following. (1982-1984)
• Pennsylvania private collection. Consigned to the following. (1984-1986)
• Harry Einstein Sale, Bowers and Merena, June 24-25, 1986, Lot 1736, $187,000.00. Sold to the following. (1986)
• Rarities Group, Inc. (Martin Paul). Sold to the following in November 1986. (1986)
• American Coin Portfolios (Dan Drykerman), for the following. (1986)
• Sommer Collection. (1986 to date)
402.8 grains. Edge lettering blundered and doubled in areas. Double struck on reverse; some stars above eagle doubled and overlapped, branch doubling has produced several "extra" berries, larger and flattened, doubling of shield has obscured lower part of IB letters in PLURIBUS, double outline on ribbon above UM and adjacent wing edge. Reverse slightly rotated (0 in date is aligned with the second T in STATES). EF-40.
2. Adams Specimen, EF-45 Cleaned
• U.S. Mint. (struck c. 1858, edge lettered in the mid- 1870s)
• Capt. John W. Haseltine (who exhibited it at the Jewett Collection Sale on January 24-25, 1876, stating that it was from a private English source, and offered it for $600.00. It is not known whether Haseltine owned the coin). (1875-1876)
• Haseltine's "Centennial Sale" I, March 30, 1876, Lot 194, $395.00 (A.N.S. catalogue copy says $345). Bought by Haseltine himself, either as a buy-in or for his stock if the coin was consigned by someone else." "Fine impression of this extremely rare dollar; about as fine as the one sold in the Sanford sale and a great deal finer than the one in the Cohen sale; guaranteed genuine and original." (1876)
• Capt. John W. Haseltine. Sold soon thereafter for $550.00 to the following. (1876)
• Phineas Adams, Manchester, New Hampshire. Sold to the following. (1876-circa 1880)
• Henry Ahlborn, Boston coin dealer and publisher of coin premium lists. Sold to the following as part of a "full set of dollars" for $1,800.00 the collection. (c. 1880) ,
• John P. Lyman, Boston, Massachusetts. (c. 1880-1913)
• S. Hudson Chapman's sale of the Lyman' Collection, November 7, 1913, Lot 16, $340.00. Described in the catalogue as Very Fine, with the reverse slightly double struck. Sold to the following. (1913)
• Waldo C. Newcomer, Baltimore, Maryland. (1913-1932) ·B. Max Mehl sale (on consignment from Newcomer) to the following. (1932)
• Col. Edward H.R. Green and Green estate. Sold to the following for a reported $3,200.00. (1932-1940)
• AJ. Allen, Plainfield, New Jersey. Sold to the following. (1940-1946)
• Frederick C.C. Boyd, East Orange, New Jersey. Consigned to the following. (1946)
• Numismatic Gallery (Abe Kosoff and Abner Kreisberg). On consignment from Boyd, the coin was sold to the following. (1946)
• Percy A. Smith, Portland, Oregon. Shown by Smith at 9/ 14/46 Oregon Numismatic Society meeting. of. Numismatist (10/49) p. A 455 for Mehl ad for the Smith consignment. Consigned to the following. (1946-1950)
• B. Max Mehl's Golden Jubilee Sale Gerome Kern and other collections), May 23, 1950, Lot 804, $3,250.00. (1950)
•Amon G. Carter. (1950-?)
•Amon G. Carter, Jr. (who exhibited it widely); owned until his death in 1982. (?-1982)
•Amon G. Carter, Jr. family.
•Stack's sale of the Carter Collection, January 18-21,1984, Lot 241, $198,000.00. Sold to the following. (1984)
• John Nelson Rowe III, as agent for the following. .L.R. French,Jr., Texas numismatist. (1984-1989)
• Stack's sale of the L.R. French, Jr. Family Collection, January 18, 1989, Lot 15, $242,000.00. Sold to the following. (1989)
• Rarities Group, Inc. (Martin Paul). Sold to the following for $275,000.00 in February 1989. (1989)
• National Gold Exchange, Tampa, Florida (Mark Yaffe). Sold to the following in March or April 1989, for a price over $300,000.00.1 (1989)
• Heritage Rare Coin Galleries (Jim Halperin and Steve Ivy), Dallas, Texas. Sold to the following. (1989)
• Midwest collection.
416.25 grains. Edge lettering fairly sharp. 0 in date aligned with the second T in STATES. EF-45 (PCGS).