THE COLLECTION OF LUCIUS S. RUDER

Stack's Bowers Galleries is proud to present another superior selection from the Collection of Lucius S. Ruder in their August 2024 Global Showcase Auction. Lucius S. Ruder was born in Hamilton, Ohio, on September 18, 1901. A quiet, intellectual, punctilious businessman with deep ancestral roots in Butler County, Ohio, he was a director and part owner of the Cincinnati Sheet Metal and Roofing Company. Mr. Ruder was also active in banking circles acting as a director of The First National Bank of Hamilton, Ohio, and the Bank of Clearwater in Clearwater, Florida, where he established a home in the years following his volunteer service as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force in World War II.

Paralleling his interests in history and economics, Mr. Ruder's numismatic activities began with the purchase of an extensive coin collection from the estate of Dr. Philip Holmes, a prominent Chicago surgeon and lifelong collector who had amassed the bulk of his collection in the 1920s. Mr. Ruder easily doubled the size and quality of this collection over the years unobtrusively drawing on multiple sources and broadening his interests to include Washington medals, tokens, and foreign coins.

The current selection from the Ruder Collection is marked by a magnificent array of U.S. and British rarities that are appearing publicly for the first time in many decades. The U.S. coins include a trio of legendary issues beginning with an 1854-D three dollar gold piece graded AU-50 (PCGS). As the only three-dollar gold piece struck at the Dahlonega Mint, this issue is extremely prized by collectors and typically found in grades of EF-45 or lower. The Wire Rim 1907 Pattern Indian eagle is particularly important as an example of the Irregular Edge variety. This variety is extremely rare and only four are known, three of which are in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. This is the only example graded by PCGS and is potentially unique in private hands. Also featured is a truly superior 1849 Mormon $2.50 graded AU-50 (PCGS) and approved by CAC.

The British coins offer a similar parade of rarity, headlined by a dazzling 1729 East India Company 5 Guineas graded MS-61 (PCGS). A lustrous AU-55 (PCGS) Edward III Noble also anchors the British gold, while the silver coins are highlighted by 1642 Oxford 1 Pound and ½ Pound coins struck under Charles I.

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