1807 $2.50 MS(PCGS#7656)

December 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1114

等级

MS62

价格

314,601

详细说明

Handsome Mint State 1807 Quarter Eagle Popular Final Year Capped Bust Right Issue 1807 Capped Bust Right Quarter Eagle. BD-1, the only known dies. Rarity-3. MS-62 (NGC). CAC. Offered is an attractive Mint State example of a challenging early U.S. Mint gold design type. The obverse exhibits a pleasant blend of rose-orange and golden-yellow patina. The reverse is golden-yellow with only a few light blushes of champagne-pink. Satiny mint luster adorns both sides, and the appearance is very nice for the assigned grade. The strike is well centered and, while soft in the centers -- a common attribute for the type -- is significantly sharper elsewhere. A lovely piece, and very significant as few certified Mint State examples of this issue have been approved by CAC. BD Die State b/b. With a mintage of 6,812 pieces, the 1807 Capped Bust Right quarter eagle is the issue most typically encountered of the type. While it is likely that some of the coins included in this mintage figure are of earlier dates, the 1807 is still the most plentiful Capped Bust Right quarter eagle by a wide margin. Just one die pair is known to have struck the entire issue, and yet the majority of coins exhibit a virtually unimpaired state of the die. This single pair of dies held up so well that, as John W. Dannreuther (2006) suggests, even Harry Bass might not have encountered an example of the second obverse die state! Significantly, the Larry H. Miller specimen represents this scarce late die state, the obverse with light cracks through the base of the date extending toward star 1, from star 1 to 2, stars 2 through 6, and (faintly) through the tops of the letters ERTY in LIBERTY. Further setting this coin apart from the majority of 1807 quarter eagles extant, the preservation is fully Mint State, and nearly Choice. Among the finest certified of perhaps 250 to 350 coins extant in all grades (per Dannreuther), the CAC sticker adds further appeal and will surely result in strong bids for this premium quality example. Provenance: From the Larry H. Miller Collection. NGC Census: 14; 5 finer (MS-64 finest). CAC Population: 2; 1 (MS-63). PCGS# 7656. NGC ID: BFVY. Click here for certification details from NGC. Click here to see Coins in Motion. [“Coins]