1893 $5, PL MS(PCGS#88383)

February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

1190

Grade

MS63PL

Price

1,560

Lot Description

Lovely honey-rose surfaces offer uncommonly strong contrast between frosty design elements and well mirrored fields. With a generous mintage of 1,528,120 circulation strikes and wide representation in repatriations of U.S. gold coins from European bank hoards, the 1893 is an understandably common issue in most Mint State grades. In the Prooflike category, and our multiple offerings in this sale notwithstanding, this issue is currently scarce as far as certified examples are concerned.