1919 1C, RD MS(PCGS#2515)
1919 1C, RD MS (PCGS#2515)
February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1020
- 等级
- MS67+RD
- 价格
- 19,200
- 详细说明
- The economic prosperity that followed the end of World War I prompted a spike in coin production in 1919, especially for Lincoln cents. The Philadelphia Mint alone coined more than 392 million of the denomination, an increase of over 100 million from 1918, making this issue one of the most readily available of the earlier Lincoln cents in most grades. The dies needed to produce such prodigious quantities of cents were prepared using hubs that were created three years earlier. This renders the finer details less crisp as they would have been back in 1916 on all but those coins struck from the freshest of dies. As a result, while there is a reasonably healthy clustering of specimens at the MS-64 to MS-66 levels for the 1919 cent, the herd thins out rather rapidly in Superb Gem. Above the basal MS-67 level the challenge becomes downright daunting. The offered example, a vivid and virtually pristine coin with coveted CAC approval, is a member of quite an exclusive club.