1841 $2.50 MS (PCGS#87720)
The March 2012 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4266
- 等级
- XF45
- 价格
- 666,586
- 详细说明
- 1841 Liberty Quarter Eagle. EF-45 (PCGS). One of the most famous of all United States coins and included as one of the <em>100 Greatest U.S. </em>Coins by Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth. Dubbed the "Little Princess" by Norman Stack in the Davis-Graves auction of 1954, or perhaps earlier, the name has continued to this day. Long known as a great rarity, when an example appeared for auction in 1930 and brought $3,000 the rarity of The Little Princess become legendary. A few others came to market and that towering price but demand has always been high. As the American economy boomed after World War II the prices have continued to rise for this rarity. Most examples reside in advanced collections and cross the auction block when significant and famous collections appear.<br />
The strike is sharp throughout with each of the stars brought up smartly by the dies as well as Liberty's curls. Matching depth of strike on the reverse where the eagle's talons are bold as well as the feathers. The surfaces show minor nicks and a few shallow pin scratches as illustrated, one just touching the upper point of the ninth star to Liberty's hair and head, another on the reverse through the E of UNITED to the rim above, just missing the upper left of the D. Yellow-gold with no signs of toning, and the surfaces are average otherwise.<br />
This is the first 1841 quarter eagle to be considered a circulation strike by PCGS, and this is a recent decision by that firm to consider any of these 1841 quarter eagles to not be Proofs. Tradition has long held that all 1841 quarter eagles are all Proofs as they all use the same die pair, including the reverse die that was used only to coin Proofs from 1840 to 1849, a policy adopted by Franklin Peale in 1839 where Proof dies were not used to coin circulation strikes. Furthermore Mint records do not account for any circulation strikes in 1841, while not recording mintag
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