1875 20C J-1405 PR(PCGS#61712)

August 2019 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Rosemont, IL

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

3421

Grade

PR64

Price

14,400

Lot Description

1875 Pattern Liberty by the Seashore Twenty Cents. Judd-1405, Pollock-1548. Rarity-7-. Aluminum. Plain Edge. Proof-64 (PCGS). CAC. OGH--First Generation. Obv: Liberty is seated by the seashore, facing left, an olive branch in her right hand, her left hand resting on the globe inscribed LIBERTY in raised letters. Two flags and a wheat sheaf are behind the portrait, a small steamship on the water in the distance with sails and smoke going in opposite directions. Thirteen stars encircle the border and the date 1875 is below. Rev:An olive wreath encircles the denomination 20 CENTS with the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around the border. This is a bright and beautiful silver white specimen with appreciable field to device contrast on both sides. Judd-1405 is one of the rarer variants of the popular Liberty by the Seashore pattern twenty-cent piece, the uspatterns.comwebsite accounting for only about a half dozen specimens, one of which is impounded in the collection of the Connecticut State Library. Provenance: From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Ruddy's) Getty Collection sale, May 1977, lot 656. PCGS Population: 2; 2 finer in this category (both Proof-66). PCGS# 61712. NGC ID: 2AB9.