HK-419, Baroque Shield Dollar, 1915 Panama-Pacific Expo, NGC MS-64, TOP POP

HK-419, Baroque Shield Dollar, 1915 Panama-Pacific Expo, NGC MS-64, TOP POP

$869.00

HK-419, SH 18-22 CU Long Tail.  Baroque Shield Dollar as per H-K, from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.  More properly this should be called the Nebraska State Fund Dollar, as the State Seal is the design used on the Reverse; this has been corrected in Shevlin's new reference.  Choice Uncirculated, certified as NGC MS-64BN, listed in the NGC Census as the Top Pop in BN.  However, it is my considered opinion as a 30 year collector (as well as a certifier of SCD for almost as long) of PPIE tokens & medals that this should have come back Red Brown (RB).  I have had other experts in this area agree with this opinion.  MS-64RB would make it tied for the absolute finest certified, with one other piece.  NGC has recent changed it's grader of tokens & medals and I believe this reflects the relative lack of experience with SCD compared to the prior staff.  Probably worthy of a resubmission in future.  You can compare this example to the NGC MS-63BN I also have listed, to compare color.  Either way, difficult and at present "impossible" to find better.  The total Uncirculated Pop is 11 in BN, 4 in RB, one of the MS-63BN being a duplicate as I resubmitted a piece and never bothered to have the cert# deleted.  Rated R-6 in Shevlin, which might describe the overall availability, however more like R-7 as an Unc.  Certainly you can't easily find one when you want one, and few are as "fresh" and original as this piece - and I have seen a fair number of them as this has been one of my "unicorns" in the HK series over the years.  Out of a very old collection where it sat undisturbed for a half century or more.

NGC 6895888-009

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