1893 25C Isabella PR (PCGS#9221)
The March 2012 Baltimore Auction
- Commissaire-priseur
- Stack's Bowers
- Numéro du lot
- 4167
- Grade
- PR65
- Prix
- 40 250
- Description du lot
- 1893 Isabella Quarter. Proof-65 (PCGS). Reflective fields and lightly dusted motifs engaged by lively gold and deep electric blue iridescence. A sharply rendered specimen with all of Barber's tiny details presented to their fullest. 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 <em>Encyclopedia </em>(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. Isabella quarters sold for $1.00 each at the Exposition. A visually pleasing and physically sharp example, the finest certified by PCGS, and no doubt destined for an advanced commemorative coinage collection.
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