1852 $5 MS(PCGS#8250)

1852 $5 MS (PCGS#8250)

The May 2013 ANA National Money Show

详细说明: 1852 Liberty Half Eagle. MS-64 (NGC). This attractive 1852 half eagle is frosty yellow-gold with a definitive olive glow. The luster is soft and pervasive, and the strike is bold for a half eagle of the era. No marks of any substance are seen with the naked eye, and low magnification provides nothing more than a few natural planchet flakes, there when struck and meaningless to the grade standards. Bold date and Closed 5. The Bass coin (Bowers and Merena, October 1999:1032) was also MS-64 and featured a lightly impressed date with an Open 5. Considered by most to be a common date, the 1852 half eagle is anything but common in Choice Mint State or finer. Though 573,901 pieces were struck, just a tiny portion of surviving specimens from that mintage can be called Uncirculated, and fewer yet are the pieces that can be called Choice -- the present coin keeps rare company indeed. An appealing coin throughout, and one that deserves a place in an advanced Liberty half eagle cabinet.