1846-O $5 MS(PCGS#8230)

1846-O $5 MS (PCGS#8230)

The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale

详细说明: 1846-O Liberty Half Eagle. Winter Variety One, the only known dies. MS-61 (NGC). Writing in the 2006 book Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint: 1839-1909, Southern gold expert Doug Winter has this to say about the 1846-O Half Eagle:                     There are only four or five Uncirculated pieces known. The PCGS and NGC population reports show a combined ten coins in Uncirculated [as of 2006, the refined total as of this writing is 12 coins -- Bowers and Merena cataloger] but I believe that this number is significantly inflated as a result of resubmissions. Only three examples have received a MS-61 grade from NGC, and the present coin is not the piece that sold as lot 4760 in Heritage's January 2003 sale of the Ashland City Collection. This is still a high Condition Census example, of course, and it is identifiable for pedigree purposes by an arcing abrasion in the reverse below the letter E in AMERICA as well as a pair of tiny nicks in the field above the eagle's head. Otherwise free of individually distracting abrasions, with warm olive-orange color to sharply struck features. A bright, somewhat semi-reflective sheen is noted for both sides.     As the foregoing discussion makes clear, the 1846-O Half Eagle is a major rarity in high grades. It is the seventh-rarest New Orleans Mint Five in AU and Mint State, and would undoubtedly rank even higher if we were to consider only Mint State survivors.