Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
April 2021 Hong Kong Auction 5-8 Apr 2021
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CHINA. Dollar, Year 10 (1921). PCGS Genuine--Cleaned, Unc Details Gold Shield.
L&M-864; K-676; Hsu-19; WS-0101. Reeded Edge variety. Obverse: President Hsu Shih Chang in formal attire facing slightly left; Reverse: Pavilion at Peking Union Medical College Hospital with legend at the bottom. Another shimmering, radiant, and lightly cleaned example of this RARE and popular type, presenting steely gray surfaces and only minor scattered marks.
L&M-864; K-676; Hsu-19; WS-0101. Reeded Edge variety. Obverse: President Hsu Shih Chang in formal attire facing slightly left; Reverse: Pavilion at Peking Union Medical College Hospital with legend at the bottom. Another shimmering, radiant, and lightly cleaned example of this RARE and popular type, presenting steely gray surfaces and only minor scattered marks.
An incredibly popular and desirable type believed to have been a pattern issue, it now appears that these were, in fact, more medallic in nature, and meant to be given out upon the opening of the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC). Initially designed with a blank field below the pavilion for recipients' names to be engraved, the design was altered to contain the three struck characters instead, as the engraving proved difficult on the initial batch.
Ex: UBS 48 (1/2000) Lot # 2039.
Estimate: $12000.00- $18000.00