1847-O $2.50 MS(PCGS#7747)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

3225

等级

MS61

价格

59,982

详细说明

This bright and vivid piece offers an uncommonly high level of preservation for a pre-Civil War Southern gold coin. Both sides exhibit deep honey-olive color that warms to medium gold as the coin dips into direct lighting. The strike is typical of the issuing mint, especially during the 1840s, and we note appreciable softness both in the centers and in some peripheral areas. Most of the obverse stars are crisp, however, and some of the eagle's plumage can be discerned. Lustrous and satiny with mostly small, singularly inconspicuous marks scattered about that help to define the grade.<p>The 1847-O has a mintage of just 124,000 pieces, survivors of which are equally as rare as those of the 1851-O and 1852-O quarter eagles. Mint State examples are decidedly rare and usually offered only at widely spaced intervals. This is a fleeting bidding opportunity not to be missed.<p>Writing in the 2020 edition of his <em>Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint: 1839-1909</em>, Doug Winter lists a remarkable seven die pairings for this issue, which combine three obverse and five reverse dies. The Winter-4 variety combines the author's obverse 1 with his reverse C. The former is a repunched date, seen clearly at the base of the digit 1, and noted on the NGC insert. NGC has also certified this coin as a "Mint Error" due to the rotated dies, which are only a few degrees counterclockwise off from medallic alignment, although in reality this die pairing is "usually found with medallic alignment of the dies," as reported by Winter.