1859 10C PR(PCGS#4748)

December 2025 Showcase Auction - The James A. Stack, Sr. Collection Part I

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

22049

Grade

PR64

Prix

1 560

Description du lot

Beautifully, mostly steel-gray surfaces exhibit more vivid iridescent toning in cobalt blue and reddish-gold at the borders. Fully struck with frosty motifs set against fields that reveal appreciable reflectivity as the coin rotates under lighting. The 1859 is an early Proof Liberty Seated dime with a reported mintage of 800 pieces. Given that numismatics was in its infancy in the United States of the late 1850s, it should come as no surprise to read that several hundred examples were placed into circulation when they failed to sell to contemporary collectors. Among the survivors Proof-64 is usually the highest grade offered and uncommonly attractive specimens as this level, as here, are always in demand among quality-conscious numismatists.