1874-CC 50C MS(PCGS#6347)

The August 2013 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

4296

等级

MS61

价格

72,046

详细说明

A Second Mint State 1874-CC Arrows Half Dollar Attractively Toned Semi-Prooflike Surfaces 1874-CC Seated Liberty Half Dollar. Arrows. WB-101, Die Pair WB-1. Rarity-6. MS-61 (NGC). Produced to the extent of just 59,000 pieces and heavily circulated as an issue during the frontier era, the 1874-CC Arrows is a key date Liberty Seated half dollar in all grades. Mint State survivors are particularly elusive in numismatic circles, the present example from the impressive Dick Osburn Collection is an important highlight of this sale. Attractively toned in iridescent pinkish-silver iridescence, both sides reveal vibrant semi-reflective tendencies in the fields as the coin dips into a light. Sharply struck devices are more frosty in texture, and all areas are free of outwardly distracting abrasions. Destined for inclusion in another advanced set of Liberty and/or Carson City Mint half dollars. WB-101 is the normal reverse variety of the 1874-CC Arrows, and it is readily distinguished from WB-102 by gthe lack of "railroad track" die damage in the field around the letters TES in STATES. Interestingly, the WB-1 die marriage represented by the present coin is similar in overall rarity to the WB-3a Railroad Track Reverse variety. All die marriages/states of the 1874-CC share the same reverse (WB-3a is a later state with the railroad track damage), the obverse of WB-1 identifiable by the presence of a heavy die line (as made) at the junction of the scroll and shield below Liberty's right index finger. PCGS# 6347. Provenance: Ex: Dick Osburn Collection. NGC Census (all varieties of the issue): just 2; 9 finer through MS-65.