1907-S 50C MS(PCGS#6511)

December 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

1418

Grade

MS67

Price

33,600

Lot Description

Superb Gem 1907-S Half Dollar Lawrence: "Scarcest late date in Mint State" Among the Finest Known 1907-S Barber Half Dollar. MS-67 (PCGS). CAC. OGH. Nicely struck and very beautiful, here is another Barber half dollar of award-winning quality from the Larry H. Miller Collection. Delicate champagne-gold toning at the centers changes to reddish-apricot at the borders, and then powder blue near the rims. A highly attractive example, among the finest in existence for its combination of technical grade and visual appeal. Among Barber half dollar specialists the 1907-S has long been known as a formidable condition rarity. Although the mintage isn't high, it is not low either -- 1,250,000 pieces. Apparently this issue was virtually completely overlooked at the time it was released, and, today, the term raritycould be applied to a piece even at the AU level. David Lawrence (1991) says that the 1907-S "is the scarcest late date of the series in MS." The James Bennett Pryor coin, lot 304 in our (Bowers and Merena's) January 1996 sale, was a PCGS MS-65 with some planchet striae and was one of the landmarks of that portion of the Pryor sale. The Eliasberg-Miller specimen is even finer and looms large among the highlights of the Miller Barber half dollar set. Provenance: From the Larry H. Miller Collection. Earlier ex our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, April 1997, lot 2113. PCGS Population: 2; with a single MS-67+ finer. CAC Population: 2; 0. PCGS# 6511. NGC ID: 24N3. Click here for certification details from PCGS.