1865-S 50C MS (PCGS#6314)
March 2020 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1418
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 11,498
- 详细说明
- 1865-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. WB-7. Rarity-2. Repunched Date, Small Thin S. AU-58 (PCGS).
A frosty and sharply struck example with a fresh, generally untoned appearance. The introductory sentence for this issue in the 2009 reference A Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties: Volume I, San Francisco Mintby Bill Bugert is terse and to the point: "1865-S is fairly scarce especially in high grades of XF or better, rare in Uncirculated." Obviously this issue followed the pattern of most others from the early San Francisco Mint -- extensive commercial use during an era in which there was very little, indeed probably no numismatic activity on the American frontier. Collectors in the Eastern states, even if they had encountered an 1865-S half dollar, would almost certainly have ignored it as numismatically insignificant, their need for a coin of this date met by one of the Philadelphia Mint's Proofs. With little wear and plenty of visual appeal, this conditionally scarce Choice AU is far finer than most 1865-S halves in numismatic circles and would do nicely in an advanced collection.
Provenance: From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection.
PCGS# 6314. NGC ID: 24JG.
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