(1879) WM 50C CSA, Scott Restrike MS(PCGS#340403)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auktionator

Stack's Bowers

Losnummer

6734

Erhaltungsgrad

MS64

Preis

5.280

Losbeschreibung

This is an attractive example for both the type and the assigned grade. Both sides are semi-prooflike in finish, the fields nicely mirrored and contrasting somewhat with satin to softly frosted design elements. Lightly toned with a pleasant light pewter gray appearance, and smartly impressed with sharp to full detail. A few blushes of warm golden-russet tinting are noted for the reverse. Struck by J.W. Scott after acquiring the dies and before using it to "restrike" 500 1861-dated Liberty Seated half dollars into Confederate half dollars. Scott, worried that the die might fail in the process of striking the harder silver of the half dollars, produced these soft white metal tokens to have a marketable product to show for his efforts in the event of premature die failure. Fortunately for numismatics his worries were unfounded, as the die survived through 500 white metal strikes for the tokens, which he offered for 50 cents apiece in 1879, as well as through 500 "restrikes" on silver Federal half dollars.