1819 $5 5D/50 MS (PCGS#8124)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 5126
- 等级
- MS64
- 价格
- 2,796,186
- 详细说明
- Outstanding Choice Mint State 1819 BD-1 Half Eagle
A Classic American Rarity
1819 Capped Head Left Half Eagle. BD-1. Rarity-6+. 5D/50. MS-64 (PCGS). CAC.
Frosty, highly lustrous yellow-gold surfaces support olive highlights. A few faint surface marks are noted, none deep or sufficient enough to affect the desirable Choice Mint State grade assigned by PCGS, and verified by CAC, for this spectacular beauty. The only provenance marker of note is a tiny obverse carbon spot close in to the bottom of star 11. Sharp and appealing in all respects, a coin that pushes the lower end of the Gem category in all regards. BD Die State a/b.
The half eagles of 1819 are extraordinary rarities. The 5D/50 variety is the most numerous of the three die marriages, with a population that the 2006 Bass-Dannreuther book suggests is in the range of 16 to 20 specimens. Included in this number is an example impounded in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. When the Harry Bass Core Collection coin was first offered in the 1907 David S. Wilson sale, the date was described as "excessively rare; only nine known to exist; the exceeding rarity of this date was not appreciated until the Smith sale." Saul Teichman's careful research has identified 14 provenance chains representing somewhere between 12 and 15 individual specimens.
In all grades and representing all die varieties, PCGS has certified just 11 examples of this date. Seven 1819 half eagles are listed as Mint State on the PCGS Population Report, almost certainly representing fewer individual coins. The offered coin is tied for CC#2 behind a pair of MS-65 grading events, one of which is the Pogue specimen - also BD-1 5D/50 - whose $423,000 realized price as lot 3153 in our February 2016 Part III Sale represents the last auction appearance for a Mint State 1819 half eagle.
Provenance: From our (Stack's) session of Auction '84, July 1984, lot 1424; Christie's sale of March 1987; Heritage's ANA Sale of August 1997, lot 7606, consigned by the Diocese of Buffalo; Heritage's ANA Sale of August 1998, lot 7628; our (American Numismatic Rarities') Classic Sale of December 2003, lot 939.
PCGS Population: 1; 2 finer (both MS-65).
CAC Stickered Population: 1; 1.
PCGS# 8124. NGC ID: BFXZ.
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