1862 50C MS (PCGS#6307)
August 2011 Chicago ANA - Rarities Night
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 7364
- 等级
- MS67
- 价格
- 139,571
- 详细说明
- 1862 Seated Liberty Half Dollar. WB-101. MS-67 (NGC). CAC. There is no doubt that this 1862 Seated half dollar is a very special coin. The surfaces possess full, softly frosted luster that flows over both sides in the veritable absence of grade limiting abrasions. It is not too much for us to write that this coin is essentially pristine, as not even a loupe calls forth a significant abrasion. There is a thin overlay of delicate rose-lavender iridescence that yields to areas of brilliance at the upper obverse and lower reverse borders. The strike is well balanced and overall sharp, the only minor softness of detail being confined, once again, to the upper obverse and lower reverse border areas. Clashmarks in the right obverse and upper reverse field areas are as struck. Far and away the finest 1862 Seated half dollar that this cataloger (Jeff Ambio) has ever seen, and a coin that is tied for Condition Census #1 with only one other MS-67 at NGC.<br /> The 1862 is the first low mintage Philadelphia Mint half dollar issue of the Civil War era. Only 253,000 business strikes were produced, and Randy Wiley and Bill Bugert (1993) describe the issue as "very scarce and currently underrated." Uncs are rated as Rarity-4+.
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