1892-S 50C MS(PCGS#6464)

June 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auktionator

Stack's Bowers

Losnummer

2151

Erhaltungsgrad

MS65

Preis

7.800

Losbeschreibung

With a lovely antique appearance in the form of gently mottled apricot-russet iridescence on a base of pearl gray patina. Both sides are fully struck with bountiful mint frost. Although it has the highest mintage of the three 1892-dated issues in the Barber half dollar series, the 1892-S is the rarest in Mint State. Obviously less attention was paid to this West Coast half dollar by contemporary Americans than to the 1892 and 1892-O. The 1892-S still benefited from its first year status, however, and it has a slightly more generous Mint State population that most other San Francisco Mint half dollars from the 1890s. Yet even so, commercial use claimed the vast majority of the 1,029,028 coins struck for the 1892-S, David Lawrence (1991) estimates that "perhaps 95% of this date exist in G/AG." Among Uncirculated survivors few grade finer than Choice, this being only our sixth offering for a Gem Mint State 1892-S in more than a decade. As with so many offerings in our Showcase Auctions, the word "opportunity" comes to the fore.