1842-D $5 Large Date MS (PCGS#8211)
The November 2011 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 9471
- 等级
- MS61
- 价格
- 255,331
- 详细说明
- 1842-D Liberty Half Eagle. Large Date. MS-61 (PCGS). <div style=""padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; background-image: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: normal; width: 600px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto;"">Much rarer than the 1842-D Small Date, the 1842-D Large Date is actually among the rarest issues in the entire Dahlonega Mint half eagle series. Doug Winter (2003) ranks the issue second in overall rarity and first in high-grade rarity among Dahlonega Mint gold coins of this denomination. The example we offer here is listed as Condition Census #2 in the 2003 edition of <em>Gold Coins of the Dahlonega Mint: 1838-1861 </em>by Doug Winter. It is the plate coin on page 168 of that book and is also the only Mint State '42-D LD five known to PCGS.<br /> An overall scuffy ""look"" certainly helps to explain the BU designation from PCGS, but it is important to remember than virtually all 1842-D LD half eagles display very heavily abraded surfaces. Additionally, this coin really does not reveal any individually distracting abrasions, and even pedigree marker are difficult to discern among the ""chatter."" Flashes of semi brilliance in the fields are easily seen as the coin rotates under a light, however, and they further enhance already attractive features characterized by a sharp strike and medium-gold color.<br /> The 1842-D LD is the first half eagle struck in the Dahlonega Mint with the new date logotype. Although federal records provide a mintage figure of 21,691 pieces, so few examples are known to exist that either the total is incorrect or many of those coins are dated 1843-D.</div> <br /> <strong>Numismatic Reflections by Q. David Bowers</strong><br /> Dahlonega and Charlotte gold coins are a popular specialty, as among the different dates and mintmarks in the half eagle series, none i
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