1841-C $2.50 MS(PCGS#7721)

August 2011 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

9185

Grade

XF45

Price

2,530

Lot Description

1841-C Liberty Quarter Eagle. Winter Variety 1 (2-B), the only known dies. EF-45 (PCGS). Partially brilliant surfaces with blushes of olive on both sides. Traces of satiny luster can be seen in the protected areas on the designs. A scant 10,281 examples were coined, and survivors are much rarer still; only 74 survivors have been certified by PCGS in all grades combined.