1873-CC 50C No Arrows MS(PCGS#6338)

1873-CC 50C No Arrows MS (PCGS#6338)

The March 2010 Baltimore Auction

详细说明: 1873-CC Seated Liberty Half Dollar. No Arrows. WB-101. MS-63 (NGC). The intersection of several legal and numismatic factors explain the extreme rarity of the '73-CC No Arrows Half Dollar in Mint State. For starters, the original mintage of this issue is limited to just 122,500 pieces. Second, many of those coins were almost certainly destroyed in the Mint after Congress passed the Coinage Act of February 12, 1873 (the infamous Crime of '73). These coins (and a great many others) were melted to provide bullion for the new higher-weight Half Dollar production called for in that Congressional act. Finally, those coins that were released from the Carson City Mint saw extensive circulation. There was no organized numismatic interest in mintmarked coinage during the 1870s, with the result that most '73-CC No Arrows Halves distributed were worn out or lost on the frontier.<br /> A solid Condition Census survivor, this Mint State piece carries a Rarity-7+ rating per Randy Wiley and Bill Bugert (<em>The Complete Guide to Liberty Seated Half Dollars</em>, 1993). Boldly, if not sharply struck throughout, the definition is particularly impressive over the eagle's plumage and talons on the reverse. Liberty's portrait is also crisply impressed on the obverse, and both sides are uncommonly smooth in outward appearance for the assigned grade. Satiny in sheen beneath an overlay of even pinkish-gray patina.