1879 $4 Flowing Hair, CAM PR (PCGS#88057)
Regency Event: Exclusively Legend
- 拍卖行
- Legend Rare Coin Auctions
- 批号
- 167
- 等级
- PR66CAM
- 价格
- 1,911,373
- 详细说明
- From the CORONET COLLECTION When our sister company Legend Numismatics was building the Coronet Gold Type set, average coins would not do. They set a high bar for quality and eye appeal-and this coin more than proves it. This coin is far superior to the shallow/hazy mirrored pieces we typically see. Deep mirrors beam boldly from all over. The mirrors have exceptional cleanliness and strong clarity. Striations are even held to a bare minimum. When you twirl this coin it looks like a freshly made sheet of glass. The reflection is intense while the contrast is strong. Both sides are a brilliant yellow gold color. There are NO spots or discolorations. Miss Liberty and the details are sharply struck and have thick gold frost. The eye appeal is awesome! The $4 Stella has long been included among gold type collections, however, they are technically patterns. By 1879, for at least a decade, various proposals for an international coinage had been tested. In 1868, there was a pattern $5 / 25 francs struck; in 1874 Dana Bickford proposed a $10 gold piece that had the conversions into various European currencies. None of these made it any further than a few coins struck. In 1879, John Kasson, the ambassador to Austria suggested a $4 gold coin to be struck in a Metric gold composition. Kasson had connections, and the resulting proposed $4 gold piece was the closest an international coinage got to mass production. Two distinct obverses were created, one with a Liberty head with her hair flowing down, designed by Charles Barber, and the other with Liberty's hair coiled up on of her head by George Morgan. The 1879 is the most "common" with 425 reported struck. Legend has it that many of these were distributed to congressmen to show what the coin would look like and some of them ended up being spent in Washington brothels. Only 425 were minted. PCGS 13, NGC 18, CAC 8. The last PCGS CAC example to sell in auction brought $240,000 in November 2017. The current Collectors Universe Value is $290,000. Out side of a High Relief in GEM, we strongly believe a GEM Stella is the next most popular coin to have in a box of 20 or a major collection. Nice coins have not been showing up in any frequency anymore. Once this coin is sold-good luck getting another! Cert. Number 84979489 PCGS # 88057
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