1914-D $5 MS(PCGS#8528)

February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

1205

Grade

MS64

Price

3,360

Lot Description

Soft frosty luster mingles with vivid rose-honey color to provide outstanding eye appeal. The technical quality of this piece is no less impressive, both sides boldly struck and so well preserved as to be not all that far from a near-Gem Mint State rating. A median rarity in the Indian half eagle series, the 1914-D is actually one of the more frequently encountered mintmarked issues of this type. The mintage is a respectable, if not overly generous 247,000 pieces, and enough have survived that locating a lower grade uncirculated coin in the MS-60 to MS-62 range should prove a relatively easy task. Any finer and the 1914-D develops into a notable condition rarity.