1815 25C MS(PCGS#5321)

August 2011 Chicago ANA - Rarities Night

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

7305

等级

MS65

价格

264,451

详细说明

1815 Capped Bust Quarter. B-1, the only known dies. Rarity-1. MS-65 (PCGS). CAC. A very rare coin at this grade level, and easily among the few finest known examples of this first year of issue for the large diameter Capped Bust quarters. Exceptional luster remains. On the obverse rich blue and violet iridescence highlights the central device and reaches to the rims in places, with bright silver brilliance around much of the circumference. The reverse exhibits lovely golden russet at the center, with a target-style ring of pale green and blue around. Visually striking, both for the colors and the luster, as well as the general sharpness of the strike. As a date, 1815 is a tougher year across the spectrum of American coinage. Just three denominations were struck. There are 11 known half eagles (from a mintage record of 635 pieces), the half dollars are a key date in the series with fewer than 50,000 originally struck, and adding just over 89,000 Capped Bust quarters covers the entire output for the year. A fire at the Mint on January 10, 1816 disrupted production going forward for a short time by affecting the planchet production process for gold and silver coins. The situation did not apply to the large cents however, the only denomination that continued in production in 1816. Since no other denominations were being struck it seems that the available presses were put to good use to strike more than 2.8 million cents. Back to the present coin, the 1815 quarters are not terribly scarce in lower grades, but are great rarities when found as fine as this example. There are just three examples graded at this level by PCGS, with only three finer. In fact, across the entire range of the large-size Capped Bust type quarters (1815 to 1828) there are only 27 grading instances higher than MS-65 in the PCGS records, and it is almost certain that some of these are re-submissions of the same coin.