1873 H10C MS(PCGS#4404)

1873 H10C MS (PCGS#4404)

November 2021 Baltimore U.S. Coins auction

详细说明: 1873 Liberty Seated Half Dime. MS-67+ (NGC). An exquisite Superb Gem with peripheral toning in rich cobalt blue and reddish-apricot iridescence. Luxurious satin surfaces are fully lustrous and as smooth as one should expect given the assigned grade. The United States Mint produced its final silver half dimes in 1873. By that year the nickel five-cent piece, produced since 1866, had become well established in most parts of the country. However, the nickel (to which it is fondly referred today) was not popular along the West Coast and in the Southwest during the late 19th century, where the preference was for silver coinage. Despite this fact, and probably in some part due to the political clout of Joseph Wharton, the nation's foremost owner of nickel mines at that time, the Act of February 12, 1873, abolished the silver half dime. The 1873 is plentiful enough today in circulated grades, although it is among the scarcer Philadelphia Mint issues of the 1860 to 1873 type in Mint State. This remarkable Superb Gem is one of the finest certified, and is actually tied for CC#1 with only a single MS-67+ entry at PCGS. NGC Census: 1; 0 finer. The corresponding PCGS Population is also 1/0. PCGS# 4404. NGC ID: 2353. Click here for certification details from NGC.