1856-C $5 MS(PCGS#8267)
1856-C $5 MS (PCGS#8267)
Winter 2022 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 5087
- 等级
- MS61
- 价格
- 72,036
- 详细说明
- Rarely Offered Uncirculated 1856-C $5 Gold The Ashland City Specimen 1856-C Liberty Head Half Eagle. Winter-1, the only known dies. MS-61 (NGC). Luxurious satin surfaces reveal plenty of semi-prooflike reflectivity in the fields as the coin dips into a light. Both sides exhibit vivid rose-gold color that provides further eye appeal. The strike is impressively full for the issuing mint, and we note only wispy handling marks precluding a higher Mint State grade. An underrated issue among Southern gold coins, the 1856-C vies with the 1839-C and 1860-C as the ninth rarest Charlotte Mint half eagle. Examples are rarer than a mintage of 28,457 pieces might imply, with no more than 250 to 300 survivors in all grades. According to Doug Winter in the 2008 edition to the book Gold Coins of the Charlotte Mint: 1838-1861, Mint State survivors number only about six or seven individual coins. While a few more Uncirculated examples have surfaced since then, this issue remains a formidable condition rarity at this level. Provenance: From Heritage's sale of the Ashland City Collection, January 2003 FUN Signature Sale, lot 4792; Heritage's sale of the Big Sky Collection, April 2015 CSNS Signature Auction, lot 5344. NGC Census: 7; 2 finer (both MS-62). PCGS# 8267. NGC ID: 25UW. Click here for certification details from NGC.