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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 905788, member: 15199&quot;]<b>&quot;Lot 330: [ Coins ]&nbsp; 1861 Jefferson Davis CSA First President&nbsp; Dime. Breen p.666&nbsp; b; Bertram&nbsp; MBR.861.W6. Choice Very Fine. Very rare:&nbsp; fewer than 15 different</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Auction House: Stack&#039;s</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Auction&nbsp; Location: USA</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Auction Date:&nbsp;&nbsp; 2003</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/coins-1861-jefferson-davis-csa-first-preside-1-c-rvaom46bk1#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/coins-1861-jefferson-davis-csa-first-preside-1-c-rvaom46bk1#" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p><a href="http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/coins-1861-jefferson-davis-csa-first-preside-1-c-rvaom46bk1#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/coins-1861-jefferson-davis-csa-first-preside-1-c-rvaom46bk1#" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Description: [&nbsp; Coins ]&nbsp; 1861 Jefferson Davis CSA First President Dime. Breen p.666&nbsp; b;&nbsp; Bertram&nbsp; MBR.861.W6. Choice Very Fine. Very rare: fewer than 15&nbsp; different specimens are&nbsp; thought to survive. The obverse of this&nbsp; enigmatic medalet bears the bust of&nbsp; President Jefferson Davis facing to&nbsp; the right. Around is inscribed&nbsp; JEFFERSON.DAVIS. Below are the&nbsp; engraver&#039;s initials, C.R. The reverse bears a&nbsp; laurel wreath with the&nbsp; date 1861 within and the legend CSA FIRST PRESIDENT&nbsp; around. The edge is&nbsp; reeded. The piece was once looped at the top for wearing as&nbsp; this seems&nbsp; to be the way they were made. Apparently made of silver and at 17.8 mm&nbsp; about the diameter of a U.S. Dime, which is how the piece got its name.&nbsp; The origin of the piece is obscure but since John Work Garrett bought&nbsp; his example from the June, 1886 Maris sale we know that they were made&nbsp; within 25 years of their date at the very latest. The fact that the&nbsp; engraver of the Jefferson Davis Dime also cut the portrait die for the&nbsp; 1861 Beauregard Dime (see next lot), together with the fact that the&nbsp; Beauregard Dime was first mentioned in 1868 in the American Journal of&nbsp; Numismatics, strongly suggest that the Jefferson Davis Dime also dates&nbsp; back to 1868 and was part of a set of medalets honoring heros of the&nbsp; Confederate States of America. John Ford noted in Numisma&nbsp; (November-December, 1956) that a Jefferson Davis Dime existed in gold&nbsp; (first described by Frossard in Numisma May 1879) and stated he thought&nbsp; the issue had been struck in Paris. It is unlikely that the Jefferson&nbsp; Davis Dime was issued by or even for the Confederacy. The 1861&nbsp; Confederate Half Dollar is the only coin the CSA is known to have struck&nbsp; and the 1861 CSA Cent is the only coin believed to have been privately&nbsp; made for the Confederacy. The Jefferson Davis Dime may have been made in&nbsp; 1861 in Paris as an ornament to be worn by those supporting the Old&nbsp; South&#039;s cause at a time when the fortunes of the rebels were at their&nbsp; height. Ex H.T. Zinsmeister in October 1963.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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