1893 25C Isabella PR (PCGS#9221)
Spring 2019 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1200
- 等级
- PR65
- 价格
- 60,328
- 详细说明
- Gem Proof 1893 Isabella Quarter
1893 Isabella Quarter. Proof-65 (NGC).
A beautiful and lightly toned Gem with overall brilliant surfaces and just the faintest tinges of sapphire and violet at the borders. The reflective fields frame sharply defined and frosty devices, with the most dramatic contrast apparent on the obverse. Uncommonly attractive and well-preserved for the issue. One of only 103 Proofs reportedly struck, all in presentation envelopes numbered 1 through 100, plus the numbers 400 (years since the "discovery" of America by Christopher Columbus), 1492, and 1892; the Breen Encyclopedia (1988) notes that most of the presentation envelopes have been lost to the ages. Petitioned by the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition, the issue features a stylized portrait of Queen Isabella as the central obverse device, with a kneeling woman with spindle in hand signifying the industrious nature of women as the reverse design. The present example is among the finest survivors of this scarce issue with just 6 graded finer in this category by NGC.
NGC Census: 9; 6 finer.
PCGS# 9221. NGC ID: BYMM.
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