près de 8 million pour une pièce
Publié : Ven Fév 17, 2012 10:55 pm
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En résumé une pièce de 1 dollar USA fut vendue pour 7,85 millions de dollars
If anyone doubts the enduring appeal of American currency, a sale completed Thursday of a sparkling 1794 silver dollar should put that to rest. The coin, believed by some experts to be the first United States dollar ever minted, was sold to a nonprofit educational group for $7.85 million, a world record for any coin.
“This is a national treasure,” said the seller, Steven L. Contursi, a California coin dealer who has owned it since 2003. He has exhibited it at a museum in Colorado and at collector events. The buyer, the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation, is expected to continue publicizing the coin.
Silver coins up to a dollar were authorized by Congress partly to show off the young nation’s economic prowess. Of the 1,578 dollars made that first year, all by hand presses, about 140 have survived. This coin is considered the finest of them, with crisp, lustrous details still visible on the allegorical Lady Liberty’s flowing hair. What appear to be heavy scratches across the coin are actually file marks, made when the coin was struck to ensure its weight in silver was precise.
“The strike is so sharp, it leads me to believe it is the very fist impression of the die. It is easy to surmise that this is probably the first dollar struck in the U.S.” said David Hall, the co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, a firm that certifies collectible coins as genuine.
En résumé une pièce de 1 dollar USA fut vendue pour 7,85 millions de dollars
If anyone doubts the enduring appeal of American currency, a sale completed Thursday of a sparkling 1794 silver dollar should put that to rest. The coin, believed by some experts to be the first United States dollar ever minted, was sold to a nonprofit educational group for $7.85 million, a world record for any coin.
“This is a national treasure,” said the seller, Steven L. Contursi, a California coin dealer who has owned it since 2003. He has exhibited it at a museum in Colorado and at collector events. The buyer, the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation, is expected to continue publicizing the coin.
Silver coins up to a dollar were authorized by Congress partly to show off the young nation’s economic prowess. Of the 1,578 dollars made that first year, all by hand presses, about 140 have survived. This coin is considered the finest of them, with crisp, lustrous details still visible on the allegorical Lady Liberty’s flowing hair. What appear to be heavy scratches across the coin are actually file marks, made when the coin was struck to ensure its weight in silver was precise.
“The strike is so sharp, it leads me to believe it is the very fist impression of the die. It is easy to surmise that this is probably the first dollar struck in the U.S.” said David Hall, the co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, a firm that certifies collectible coins as genuine.
