Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
September 2021 Hong Kong Auction 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2021
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CHINA. Dollar, Year 10 (1921). PCGS MS-63.
L&M-864; K-676; 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. Clearly above average, this glistening Choice example presents a razor-sharp strike and nearly blast white surfaces. The radiance is quite captivating and should allow this specimen to stoke fierce envy.
L&M-864; K-676; 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. Clearly above average, this glistening Choice example presents a razor-sharp strike and nearly blast white surfaces. The radiance is quite captivating and should allow this specimen to stoke fierce envy.
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.
From the Hobart Collection.
Estimate: $20000 - $40000