1872-CC $5 MS(PCGS#8326)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

3128

Grade

AU55

Price

26,400

Lot Description

Offered is one of the finest 1872-CC half eagles available to advanced gold collectors and Carson City Mint enthusiasts. It is a highly attractive coin dressed in deep, vivid, orange-gold and deeper honey-rose colors. Abundant mint frost remains to surfaces that, while possessed of a few shallow scuffs over and around Liberty's portrait, present as relatively smooth during in hand viewing for a lightly circulated CC-Mint gold coin. This is not a well struck issue, and while we note characteristic softness through the centers, there is also considerable sharpness of detail toward the borders.<p>The 1872-CC (16,980 coins struck) is much rarer than the 1871-CC in all grades and is tied with the 1873-CC as the second rarest Carson City Mint half eagle in high grades after the 1878-CC. Apart from a solitary MS-60 listed at NGC that has been certified since 2020, the 1872-CC is unknown in straight-graded Mint State. As a premium AU survivor certified by PCGS, the offered coin qualifies as Condition Census for the issue. It is fit for inclusion in an advanced numismatic cabinet.