1840 (O) 50C Medium Letters MS(PCGS#6233)

The August 2013 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

4112

等级

MS64

价格

64,842

详细说明

Brilliant Choice Mint State 1840-(O) Seated Half Dollar 1840-(O) Liberty Seated Half Dollar. WB-101, Die Pair WB-4. Rarity-3. Medium Letters. Repunched 8. MS-64 (NGC). CAC. This is a highly prized variety, being a one-year type in the New Orleans Mint Liberty Seated half dollar series. Long thought to be a product of the Philadelphia Mint because it lacks an O mintmark, the 1840 Medium Letters was actually struck in the Louisiana coinage facility using a leftover reverse die of the Reeded Edge design. Writing in 1993, Randy Wiley and Bill Bugert assign this variety a Rarity-7+ rating in Mint State. The present example is particularly vibrant with a light overlay of silver-gray patina and softly frosted mint bloom. The strike is pleasingly sharp, and there are no sizable or individually mentionable abrasions to report. A definite find for the collector who specializes in this long-lived half dollar series of the 19th century. PCGS# 6233. Provenance: From the Richard Jewell Collection. Earlier from S.H. and H. Chapman's sale of the Harlan P. Smith Collection, May 1906; John H. Clapp; Clapp estate, 1942; Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection; and our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, April 1997, lot 1917. NGC Census: 3 in 64; 1 finer.