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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DOLLAR HK-157 40 MM VARIETY. ALSO CATALOGUED AS EGLIT 36(WM).
Struck by Boldenweck & Co, Chicago, who received design patents D20,196 and D20,195 for the obverse and reverse designs Oct. 7, 1890. Possibly designed by Rudolph Laubenheimer, who designed No. 297. Almost certainly not designed by Robert Lovett, as suggested by Eglit, since Lovett died more than a decade earlier.
A MS 63 PL NGC GRADED EXAMPLE SOLD FOR $336.00 BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS IN MAY 2023. THIS WAS A 37MM EXAMPLE.
AN NGC GRADED MS 63 EXAMPLE WAS SOLD BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS FOR $431.25. THIS ONE APPEARED TO BE A 40MM EXAMPLE, BUT THE HOLDER DID NOT IDENTIFY THE SIZE.
THIS IS THE SINGLE TOP POP EXAMPLE OF ONLY FIVE LISTED PER THE PCGS CENSUS AS OF 6/2023.
THERE ARE ONLY (1) MS 65 AND (1) MS 66 PL LISTED AS FINER IN THE NGC CENSUS LISTINGS IN THE MORE COMMON 37MM SIZE AS OF 8/2023,
THIS EXAMPLE IS TIED FOR TOP POP GRADE WITH TWO OTHER EXAMPLE IN THE 40MM VARIETY SIZE AS PER THE NGC CENSUS AS OF 8/2023.
THE 40MM SIZED EXAMPLES ARE MUCH RARER THAT THE 37MM SIZED EXAMPLES. (FOURTEEN 40MM'S VS. FIFTY THREE 37MM'S IN NGC CENSUS AS OF 8/2023). PCGS DOES NOT DIFFERENTIATE THIS TYPE BY THE TWO SIZE VARIETIES.