The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 1, January 4, 2004, Article 12

CARSON CITY DIE, 1688 MINT PROPOSAL SOLD

One U.S. Mint die spared the hammer and anvil treatment
was sold at the December 13th Holabird Americana auction.
A Carson City mint half dollar reverse die c.1870-78 brought
$18,975 (including a 15% buyer's fee). In the same sale a
group of four documents from a 1688 proposal to build the
first mint to strike coins on American soil brought $12,650.
The documents came from the estate of Sir Edmund Andros,
who served as governor of New York (1674-1681) and
New England (1686-89).

Is this a new record for American numismatic ephemera?
Is anyone aware of any letters which have sold for more?

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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