1859-D $2.50 MS(PCGS#7789)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auktionator

Stack's Bowers

Losnummer

6230

Erhaltungsgrad

AU53

Preis

9.600

Losbeschreibung

This lot highlights a vivid AU 1859-D $2.50 with blushes of pale silvery iridescence enlivening deep orange-gold color. D-Mint quarter eagles from the 1850s are seldom fully struck, and while a bit soft in the center of the reverse, this piece exhibits otherwise impressively sharp detail throughout the design. Suitably lustrous for the grade, although faint hairlines and a touch of glossiness to the texture suggest an old, light cleaning. After a one-year hiatus, the Dahlonega Mint returned to quarter eagle production in 1859 with a delivery of 2,244 coins. This is the final Dahlonega Mint quarter eagle, and it is a median rarity in its series from both absolute and high grade standpoints. The typical survivor falls somewhere in the EF-40 to AU-53 grade range, seldom AU-55 or AU-58, and rarely even in the lowest Mint State grades.