1865-S H10C RPD FS-301 MS(PCGS#145480)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

2571

等级

MS63

价格

12,505

详细说明

1865-S Liberty Seated Half Dime. V-1, FS-301. Repunched Date. MS-63 (PCGS). Soft mint luster blends with warm pearl gray patina on both sides of this handsome piece. Direct lighting calls forth subtle lilac and pink highlights, the obverse also with a few speckles of russet scattered about. Boldly defined apart from the usual (for the issue) softness at Liberty's foot and the upper left portion of the wreath on the reverse. Heavy commercial use claimed virtually all of the 120,000 half dimes struck in the San Francisco Mint in 1865, such coins continuing to circulate on the West Coast during the Civil War even through this was not the case back east. Mint State survivors are rare at all levels, the present example of further desirability due to bold repunching at the digits 1, 6 and, especially, 5 in the date. The reverse exhibits a heavy bisecting crack from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock, with a branch from this crack between the letters H in HALF and I in DIME. This is the only Mint State example attributed as FS-301 known to PCGS and a noteworthy opportunity for the advanced collector. Provenance: From the Henry Collection of Liberty Seated Half Dimes. Earlier ex Al Blythe; Heritage's sale of the Al Blythe Collection of Half Dimes, February 2008 Long Beach Signature Auction, lot 55. The plate coin for the issue in the 1992 Blythe half dime reference. PCGS Population (FS-301 attribution only): just 1 in all Mint State grades. PCGS# 145480. Click here for certification details from PCGS.