I have always enjoyed
trade dollars—one of my favorite series in American numismatics. Coming up in
our March auction with the Whitman Coin Expo in Baltimore are the two great
rarities in the series—the 1884 and 1885. Per information from John W. Haseltine
and Stephen Nagy there were just 10 struck of the former and five of the
latter. Neither coin is represented in the institutional collections at the
American Numismatic Society, the American Numismatic Association, or the
Smithsonian Institution.
The trade dollars are
being offered as part of our Rarities Night session on Thursday, March 19,
2020. They are pedigreed to the E. Horatio Morgan Collection, an incredible
cabinet that Stack’s Bowers Galleries has been featuring at auction over the
past year. I foresee the eyes of the numismatic world focusing on Baltimore
next month. How exciting! I can hardly wait to see what happens.
