1854-O $5 MS(PCGS#8259)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

4540

Grade

AU58

Price

7,200

Lot Description

A beautiful orange-honey example with boldly impressed design elements and nearly full, frosty mint luster. From a mintage of 46,000 pieces, survivors of which likely number no more than 300 coins at all levels of preservation. Even so, this figure is sufficient to rank the 1854-O among the more readily obtainable pre-Civil War era New Orleans Mint half eagles. With the premium Choice AU quality, extraordinary eye appeal and CAC approval offered here, however, examples are rare.