1839 50C No Drapery MS(PCGS#6230)
1839 50C No Drapery MS (PCGS#6230)
December 2020 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1081
- 等级
- MS65
- 价格
- 904,476
- 详细说明
- Historic First Year 1839 Liberty Seated Half Dollar One Year No Drapery Design Type 1839 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. No Drapery. WB-4. Rarity-4. MS-65 (PCGS). OGH. This 1839 is brilliant and exceptionally smooth for an example of this challenging one year design type in the Liberty Seated half dollar series. Mint luster is full with a satin to softly frosted texture that provides modest cartwheel visual effects. Liberty's right leg and talon are blunt, a feature shared by the plate coin for the WB-4 variety in Bill Bugert's 2016 Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties, Volume V. Otherwise, however, we note bold to sharp detail with much of Liberty's portrait and the eagle's plumage fully rendered and crisp. Among the finest certified for the No Drapery design, here is a significant offering for high grade type collectors. Gobrecht's Liberty Seated design came last to half dollars, three years after its introduction to dollars, two years after it first appeared on dimes and half dimes, and a year after it was first seen on quarter dollars. Half dollars since 1836 had displayed a Gobrecht reworking of the old design by John Reich, with a capped bust of Liberty on the obverse and eagle on the reverse. The reverse design was retained with slight modifications; in 1842, the size of the legend on the reverse increased notably, 1853 saw the brief use of a glory of rays around the eagle, and in the 1866 the motto IN GOD WE TRUST was added. Of vital importance to type collectors, the No Drapery obverse design was used exclusively in 1839, and for only a portion of that year. Breen once called any Mint State example "prohibitively rare," and high grade pieces such as this are even more so. Provenance: From the Larry H. Miller Collection. PCGS Population: 4 with a single MS-65+ finer. PCGS# 6230. NGC ID: 24GK. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Click here to see Coins in Motion. [“Coins]