1822 25C Browning 2 25/50C MS (PCGS#38970)
The Regency Auction XXI May 2017
- 拍卖行
- Legend Rare Coin Auctions
- 批号
- 197
- 等级
- MS65+
- 价格
- 850,266
- 详细说明
- A VERY RARE die variety, rated as R-5 in the literature, but usually encountered in lower circulated grades. This is the FINEST example graded by PCGS and the quality is high end and very visually appealing. The well struck devices are frosty and crisply defined. The obverse fields have a bold, somewhat prooflike luster to them, which contrast nicely against Ms. Liberty’s fully defined bust and the sharply impressed stars. The reverse luster is a touch more satiny than PL. The eagle is very crisp and completely embossed. Twirling the coin in a light, the colors come to life. The obverse shows a medium silver-slate-dove patina that blends nicely with some bluish, tan, olive, and gold accents. The reverse is a bit more dramatic, with swaths of blue and gold iridescent hues. Even using a strong glass, only a few tiny marks can be identified and none do more than serve as pedigree markers for future generations to identify this coin. Modern scholarship believes that this reverse die was engraved in 1818, as the numeral and dentil punches match those on other 1818 reverse dies. Because, even 30 years after the mint was founded, die steel was difficult to come by, so old dies were saved and pressed into service years after being engraved. PCGS 2, NGC 0. This is the ONLY one graded MS65+. The Eliasberg coin used to be NGC MS66, but is now graded PCGS MS65 and sold in the D. Brent Pogue sale, for $188,000. This coin now ranks as the HIGHEST graded! Trying to trace its pedigree is tough as it is not listed in the Tompkins census (although there is a listing for a coin that sold in 1997 that was called a “one sided proof” which in the old days, we could understand a classification like that for this coin, with its mirror like obverse. The Randall-Garrett-Pogue coin, a PCGS PR65 sold for $223,250 in the May 2015 Pogue auction. The Virgil Brand-James A. Stack-David Akers coin is graded PR65 PCGS/CAC and sold in the 2014 FUN auction for $229,125. The current PCGS Price Guide value is listed at $175,000. Certainly a true PRIZE for any early silver collector! Really this coin is VERY SPECIAL and is worthy of the finest early quarter set! We expect a run away price when this 25/50C crosses the block! PCGS # 38970 Cert. Number 83774410 PCGS # 5333
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