1845 50C MS(PCGS#6248)

March 2018 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

10199

等级

MS64

价格

64,597

详细说明

Key Date 1845 Half Dollar The Richmond-Gardner-Vanderbilt Specimen Registry Set Candidate 1845 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. WB-2. Rarity-3. MS-64 (PCGS). CAC. This coin offers high Condition Census quality for an eagerly sought issue among 1840s half dollars. Warmly and evenly patinated in a blend of iridescent gold and pearl gray, both sides display full mint luster in a soft satin texture. Virtually full in strike and exceptionally smooth, even the finest collection of Liberty Seated half dollars would be enhanced by this handsome piece. Half dollar production at the Philadelphia Mint dipped to just 589,000 circulation strikes in 1845, one of the lowest outputs for this denomination from that decade. Long regarded as a key date issue among specialists, even EF and AU survivors are scarce. In Mint State the 1845 is a classic rarity, and the present example numbers among the finest certified. Only six die marriages have been positively confirmed, enumerated in the excellent new reference A Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties, Volume V: Philadelphia Mint, 1839 to 1852by Bill Bugert. WB-2 represented here is identifiable by an obverse die line in the denticles outside stars 3 and 4 and vertical die lines on the reverse within the olive leaves. Provenance: From the A.J. Vanderbilt Collection. Earlier ex David Lawrence's sale of the Richmond Collection, Part III, March 2005, lot 1677; Joel Cherry of Mercury Numismatics, June 2007; Eugene H. Gardner; Heritage's sale of the Eugene H. Gardner Collection, June 2014, lot 30489; via Larry Stack at Stack's Bowers Galleries. PCGS Population: 5; with a single MS-64+ finer. PCGS# 6248. NGC ID: 24H3. Click here for certification details from PCGS.