Q. David Bowers
• REGISTRY OF KNOWN SPECIMENS:
1. Cleneay Specimen, .Proof-65, dipped
• Capt. John W. Haseltine.
• Thomas Cleneay.
• Cleneay Collection sold by the Chapman brothers, December9, 1890, Lot 944, $18.50.
• Peter Mougey
• Mougey Collection sold by Thomas L. Elder, September 1910, Lot 961, $10.00.
• John P. Lyman
• Lyman Collection sold by S.H. Chapman, November 7, 1913, Lot 13.
• H.O. Granberg, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
• Granberg Collection sold by B. Max Mehl, July 16, 1919, Lot 29, $42.00.
• Frederick C.C. Boyd.
• Boyd, "World's Greatest Collection," sold by Numismatic Gallery (Abe Kosoff and Abner Kreisberg), January 20, 1945, Lot 112. "Brilliant Proof restrike." $225.00.
• Unknown intermediaries.
• Beverly Hills Stamp & Coin Shop (Max L. Justus), fixed price list, August 1, 1957.
• Abe Kosoff. Sold to the following.
• Ken Nichols, Costa Mesa, California. Sold to the following.
• Newport Balboa Savings and Loan (Newport Beach, CA) .
• Abe Kosoff.
• Unknown intermediaries.
• Stack's Autumn Sale, 1978, Lot 303, $42,000. "Brilliant
Proof, delicate golden-russet toning."
• Ed Hipps. Sold to the following.
• Steve Ivy. Sold to the following.
• Martin Paul. Consigned to the following.
• Metropolitan New York Sale. New England Rare Coin Auctions, March 1982, Lot 1575, "A spectacular cameo Proof, mostly brilliant with attractive golden-russet toning. Virtually perfect in all respects, and simply stunning to behold." $46,000.00.
• Walton Hood and Reed Spencer (owners of Palm Beach Rare Coins). Soldor traded to the following at the beginning of the June 1982 Long Beach (CA) Coin Show.
• Ed Owen. Sold to the following at the June 1982 Long Beach Coin Show.
• Larry Hanks and Jay C. Miller. "I believe the price paid was in the mid to high $30,000 range," Jay Miller recalled.(Letter to the author, May 19, 1992.)
Sold to the following.
• Massachusetts collector; Dipped.Plate coin in Breen Proof coins (1977) and regular (1988) Encyclopedias; illustrated in color coyer of COINage magazine, May 1966.
2. Newcomer Specimen, Proof-65, cracked planchet
• Capt. John W. Haseltine
• Waldo C. Newcomer, Baltimore, Maryland. Consigned to the following.
• B. Max Mehl, circa 1931-1932. Sold to the following c. 1932.
• Col. Edward H.R. Green.
• Burdette G.Johnson, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Jack V. Roe.
• Roe collection sold by B. Max Mehl, June 12, 1945, Lot 426, $220.00.
• Will W. Neil
• Neil collection sold by B. Max Mehl, June 17, 1947, Lot 28, $300.00. Amon C. Carter.
• Amon G. Carter, Jr.
• Carter Collection sold by Stack's, January 1984, Lot 238, $55,000.00. "Delicate pale gray and golden russet toning." Sold to the following.
• John Nelson Rowe III, as agent for the following.
• L.R. French, Jr;
• French Family Collection sold by Stack's, January. 1989, Lot 12. "Brilliant Proof .... Delicate pale gray and golden russet toning." $82,500.00.
MARKET NOTES
The following auction offerings are in chronological sequence and give an idea of the market at the times indicated, although it is not known if all specimens actually found buyers at the prices indicated:
• 1877, Haseltine's June 11th sale, Lot 338. 1879, Haseltine's January 15th sale, Lot 282 • 1890, December. Cleneay specimen. $18.50. 1910, September; Cleneayspecimen. $10.00 1913, November; Cleneay specimen. $40.00. 1919, September. Cleneay specimen. $42.00.
• 1945, January. Cleneay specimen. $225.00.
• 1945, June. Newcomer specimen. $220.00.
• 1947, June. Newcomer specimen. $300.00. 1978, September. Cleneay specimen. $42,000.00 . 1982, March. Cleneay specimen. $46,000.06.
• 1984, January. Newcomer specimen. $55,000.00.
• 1989, January. Newcomer specimen. $82,500.00.
Enabling legislation: None
Designer of obverse: Robert Scot (after Stuart), model by John Eckstein
Designer of reverse: Robert Scot (from the Great Seal)
Statutory weight: 416 grains; .8924 silver, balance copper (statute irrelevant to novodels), Novodels weigh 419.5 to 423 grains.
Melt-down (silver value) in year minted: Not relevant; coins not minted in 1801.
Dies prepared: Obverse: 1; Reverse 1 (same reverse used on all 1801-2-3-4 novodels)
Business strikes: None
Proof mintage: Unknown; possibly fewer than 5; in any event, fewer than any other 1801-2-3-4 novodel.
Approximate population Proof-65 or better: 2 (URS-2)
Approximate population Proof-60 to 64: 0 (URS-0)
Commentary
This is the rarest issue of the 1801-2-3 Proof novodel dollars.