1852-O 25C XF40 认证号19763516, PCGS号5420

XF40 1-A and rare in grade, R6. The 1852-o has one of the lowest mintage's for any quarter dollar produced in the 1850's. At 96,000 you'd think there would be sufficient survivors but this does not seem to be the case. It is surmised that most of the year's mintage remained undistributed in a New Orleans vault until February 1853 when the official coin weight changed from 6.88 to 6.22 grams. Mint officials melted the heavier coins that were still on hand. This would have included many 1852-o and 1851-o quarters. This helps explain their current day survival rate. PCGS Pop: 8 in 40. No auction history.

Ron Guth

The 1852-O Quarter Dollar is a tough date that is incredibly rare in Mint State.  In fact, the majority of certified examples grade either XF40 or less.  PCGS has certified two Mint State examples, the finest of which is a single PCGS MS63.  This date shows the typical strike weakness of a New Orlean product, but some examples are weak at the top of the obverse and the bottom of the reverse, indicating that the dies may have been out of parallel when some coins were struck.  This anomaly can be seen on the finest example (illustrated above).

The record price for this date at auction is $126,500, realized in 2007 in a Heritage auction by a PCGS MS63.