1881-O $10 MS(PCGS#8693)
1881-O $10 MS (PCGS#8693)
February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1212
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 43,637
- 详细说明
- Rich deep olive and warm orange-honey in color with significant prooflike reflectivity in the fields. Uniformly sharp and attractive, this coin makes a strong impression for the assigned grade. After the Civil War, the New Orleans Mint did not resume production of the eagle until 1879, and then only in modest quantities. All three of the New Orleans Mint eagles dated 1880 to 1882 are important rarities. The 1881-O is the most elusive issue in this group, and it ranks third in both absolute and high grade rarity among the 16 O-Mint eagles of the Motto type. At the time of striking, collecting coins by mintmark had not yet taken off, therefore very little numismatic notice was paid to this issue. Once the 1881-O eagle found an audience, Mint State examples were generally unavailable, making it a significant condition rarity. The present example is one of perhaps only 275 to 325 coins extant in all grades (per Doug Winter, 2020). Mint State survivors number fewer than 20 coins, and this NGC AU-58 is among the finest realistically obtainable by most collectors.