1893 25C Isabella PR(PCGS#9221)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

3234

等级

PR65

价格

83,788

详细说明

A beautiful and vividly toned Gem with particularly striking obverse toning in iridescent reddish-rose, steel-olive and cobalt blue. The more reserved, yet equally attractive reverse exhibits steel-blue undertones to dominant charcoal-rose patina. The fields are appreciably reflective and frame sharply defined and frosty devices, with the most dramatic contrast apparent on the obverse. Uncommonly attractive and well-preserved for the issue.<p>One of only 103 Proofs reportedly struck, all in presentation envelopes numbered 1 through 100, plus the numbers 400 (years since the "discovery" of America by Christopher Columbus), 1492, and 1892; the Breen Encyclopedia (1988) notes that most of the presentation envelopes have been lost to the ages. Petitioned by the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition, the issue features a stylized portrait of Queen Isabella as the central obverse device, with a kneeling woman with spindle in hand signifying the industrious nature of women as the reverse design. The present example is among the finest survivors of this scarce Proof issue.