Results Set Record for the Firm's Highest Grossing Auction Sale in its 90+ Year History.
Patterns (1813) Values
The Patterns (1813) series of Pattern Coinage in the U.S. Coins contains 2 distinct entries.
History and Overview
The listings for 1813 are limited to private restrikes of the half dollar denomination. No contemporary patterns have been recorded, and almost nothing is known about experiments and ideas tried at the Mint during this era.
Collecting Perspective
The so-called restrikes of this year were made generations later from dies discarded as scrap iron by the Mint. The obverse die was originally used to strike 1813 half dollars of the Overton-107 variety, while the reverse was originally employed to strike 1810 Overton-104 coins. The varieties known as J-42 and J-43 are highly collectible and highly desired in their own right today, specialists recognizing them for what they are. Examples are very rare.
Greysheet News
While reviewing the initial results in various categories of recent auctions, my initial take is that the sales were moderate to strong.
More than 300 lots, consisting of high quality Walking Liberty half dollars from the Mack C. Chase Collection are set to cross the auction block as part of Stack's Bowers Galleries' November Showcase Auction, the official auction of the Whitman Expo.





