1906-O $10 MS(PCGS#8761)

1906-O $10 MS (PCGS#8761)

The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale

详细说明: 1906-O Liberty Eagle. Winter Variety One, the only known dies. MS-62 (NGC). OH. The 1906-O represents the end of an era in coinage history as the final New Orleans Mint delivery in the Ten-Dollar Eagle series. This is a scarce issue even in lower Mint State grades with there being fewer than 500 coins extant from a mintage of 86,895 pieces (this estimate for the number of survivors is per Doug Winter, 2006). Softly frosted with handsome khaki-orange color, the present example is quite smooth for the grade with no overt abrasions. A sharply struck piece that would probably have secured a higher grade were it not for some minor breaks to the luster on the obverse.<br />     Ranking in the middle of the rarity scale for Motto Liberty Eagles from the New Orleans Mint, the 1906-O is rarer than such other issues in this series as the 1888-O, 1894-O and 1895-O.