1848 $2.50 MS(PCGS#7748)

August 2011 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

9210

Grade

MS61

Price

3,738

Lot Description

1848 Liberty Quarter Eagle. MS-61 (NGC). Pleasing orange-gold color throughout with moderate handling marks from bag shipping. The strike is sharp enough to bring up the obverse curls and star radials, but a trifle soft on the eagle's thigh. Rare with a mintage of 7,497 pieces, and this date was missing from the famed J. F. Bell Collection in the 1940s, causing a sudden realization that this issue was indeed rare. Likely one of the top 20 to survive of this issue and a condition rarity at this level.