1856-O $2.50 MS (PCGS#7780)
The August 2013 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money
- Auctioneer
- Stack's Bowers
- Lot Number
- 5071
- Grade
- MS61
- Price
- 7,050
- Lot Description
- 1856-O Liberty Quarter Eagle. MS-61 (NGC).
This brilliant and lustrous quarter eagle is sharply struck virtually everywhere save for a touch of softness at some of the eagle's neck feathers. Very rare at the MS-61 level, and all but unavailable finer. Notable as the penultimate quarter eagle issue to be struck at the New Orleans Mint.
PCGS# 7780.
NGC Census: 9; 2 finer (MS-62 finest).
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