1906-D $5 MS(PCGS#8414)

August 2011 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money Auction

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

9501

Grade

AU55

Prix

690

Description du lot

1906-D Liberty Half Eagle--Laminated Planchet Obverse--AU-55 (PCGS). Here is an extraordinary mint error in the form of a detached lamination. Not only is the lamination quite large and missing from the coin, but it fell out of a rather significant place&mdash;<em>Liberty's face.</em> A broad swath of surface gold has peeled away and begins from the top of her head, down her temple, touching her eye, nose, mouth and ear, jaw and neck&mdash;leaving behind only partially differentiated facial features. The balance of the coin is natural lightly toned gold, with a few trivial surface marks. First year of issue from the Denver branch mint, which obviously attests to a minor problem in rolling out this gold strip to make planchets. Laminations are common to some series, but not to gold coins, where careful inspections were the rule and few such errors escaped into circulation. A prize for the error specialist because the rarity and dramatic nature of this lamination blunder.