1852 G50C BG-1075 MS65 认证号60062220, PCGS号10904

1859 1/2 Liberty Round BG-1075. R-7 purchased from Bowers and Merena in June 2009. Lot # 3569. B&M Comments: A very rare and highly elusive type, BG-1075 was discovered as recently as 1979 by renowned California Fractional collector Jay Roe. In the 2003 edition of the book California Pioneer Fractional Gold by Walter Breen and Ronald J. Gillio, as many as seven different examples are pedigreed. We are unable to positively match the coin in this lot to any of those pieces, however, but we are confident that it is not the Norweb/Brilliant & Sieck, Cohen or Jay Roe specimens that Bowers and Merena have auctioned in the past. It is also probably not the specimen that sold as lot 2426 in our October 1996 sale of the Burhop and Davis Collections, but plate matching makes it difficult for us to make a positive match. As one of only two examples of BG-1075 to have received an MS-65 grade from PCGS (the other being the Jay Roe specimen), however, this coin is possibly the Stephen Richter specimen that appeared in a Kagin's Coin World ad in the July 13, 1998 issue. Radiant, mirror-finish fields form a splendid backdrop to satiny, boldly impressed devices. The color is a beautiful blend of orange-gold and green-gold shades that is fully appreciable in the absence of grade-limiting blemishes. An obviously important offering for the advanced collector of California Fractional gold.