1859 50C, CAM PR(PCGS#86413)

August 2011 Chicago ANA - Rarities Night

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

7207

Grade

PR66

Prix

16 100

Description du lot

1859 Seated Liberty Half Dollar. Proof-66 Cameo (PCGS). CAC. Even despite the wholesale destruction of many examples from this 800 piece mintage, the 1859 is much more obtainable in today's market than earlier dated proof half dollars of the Seated Liberty type. Most survivors grade no finer than Proof-64, however, their surfaces usually marred by at least a few wispy hairlines and/or minor contact marks. The coin we offer here is a remarkable condition rarity that ranks among the handful of finest certified specimens at PCGS. Both sides are exceptionally smooth without so much as a single detracting hairline or other handling mark. A tiny, shallow planchet void (as made) in the reverse field behind the eagle's neck is noted for pedigree purposes, as is a tiny swirl of milky-silver color on the obverse inside star 11. Originally toned in crescents of blended copper-gray, charcoal-gray and rose-gray iridescence that yield to areas of pale-silver tinting over the upper left obverse and reverse. Stunning!