1839-D $2.50 MS(PCGS#7700)
1839-D $2.50 MS (PCGS#7700)
June 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2316
- 等级
- XF45
- 价格
- 60,243
- 详细说明
- This handsome piece exhibits intermingled pinkish-rose highlights to dominant deep honey-olive color. Somewhat lightly struck in the centers, especially on the reverse, although the detail is considerably bolder elsewhere. Faint traces of frosty luster persist to tempt discerning bidders. 1839 was the first year of coinage for the denomination at the Dahlonega Mint, the final year of quarter eagle coinage of the design type, and the second of just two years with an obverse mintmark position (the first year, 1838, saw branch mint coinage from only the Charlotte facility). In 1840, Christian Gobrecht's Liberty Head design replaced William Kneass' short-lived Classic Head motif of 1834 to 1839, and the mintmark position was moved to the reverse die. The 1839-D offered here is from a modest mintage of 13,674 pieces, of which fewer than 300 coins are believed extant in all grades.