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Hong Kong Signature Sale 3087  18-19 Dec 2020
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Lot 30226

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Price realized: 6000 USD
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Republic Sun Yat-sen "Upper Five-Pointed Stars/Dot Below Ear" Memento Dollar ND (1927) AU55 NGC, KM-Y318.1 (1912), L&M-48 (1928), Kann-600b, WS-0158 (1927), Wenchao-891 (rarity 2 stars; same). Five-Pointed upper stars variety with dot below ear. Founding of the Republic commemorative. A fairly handsome rendition of this rarest silver dollar type of the Memento series, light handling in the fields hardly obscuring traces of cartwheel luster and heavy die polish lines. Despite debate and disagreement over the dating the issue--with both Lin and Ma and NGC dating the issue to 1928, while the Standard Catalog of World Coins and PCGS place it at 1912--more modern scholarship points to 1927 as the date of production, coinciding with the 16th anniversary of the People's Republic, and also marking the first usage of the "Memento" legend on the coins prior to the adoption of the 6-pointed stars design later the same year.

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Estimate: 2000-3000 USD
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