Board Member Joel Orosz had a few tidbits for David Davis' research: "In the Cohen sale (1875), the buyer was Herman Ely at $23.00."

"In the Levick sale (1859), my priced and named copy says the buyer was "Wilson", and the price was a munificent $1.80. Of course, Cogan did describe it as "poor". I assume that "Wilson" was Rathmel Wilson, of Wilmington, Delaware. He was a buyer in the Lewis Roper sale of 1851, and purchased, from the grandnephew of Charles Thomson, the Nova Constellatio mark and quint. See Bowers, History of U.S. Coinage, pp. 134-35, and Garrett 1, lots 620 and 621."

Joel's report presents a problem, since others have reported that their catalogs record the lot as a no sale. Hmmm.