1891-CC $5 MS(PCGS#8378)

February 2026 Showcase Auction - The James A. Stack, Sr. Collection Part II

Auktionator

Stack's Bowers

Losnummer

24018

Erhaltungsgrad

AU58

Preis

6.000

Losbeschreibung

Wisps of pale silver-blue iridescence blend with dominant rose-gold color on both sides of this beautiful CC-Mint half eagle. It is sharply struck, lustrous and uncommonly smooth for having seen light commercial use. Due to financial setbacks, the demand for gold specie from European countries increased markedly in 1891, and the Carson City Mint stepped up gold coin production. The facility's output of half eagles reached its peak in 1891 at 208,000 pieces, and for the second year in a row coinage of this denomination at the Carson City Mint outstripped that at the Philadelphia Mint. Many of these coins were exported, as intended. Repatriations from European vaults in recent decades have provided a windfall of Choice About Uncirculated and Mint State examples. The James A. Stack, Sr. specimen offered here will be just right for a high quality type set or specialized cabinet of Carson City Mint gold.