1838 P50C J-80 PR(PCGS#11332)
1838 P50C J-80 PR (PCGS#11332)
Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 3447
- 等级
- PR65
- 价格
- 231,359
- 详细说明
- <strong>Obv:</strong> The same design that the Mint used to strike regular issue half dollars of the Liberty Seated, No Drapery type in 1839. The word LIBERTY is in incuse letters. <strong>Rev:</strong> An eagle flies left with an olive branch and bundle of arrows in its talons. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is inscribed along the upper border, the denomination HALF DOL. along the lower border. A very pretty piece, both sides exhibit cobalt blue and pale pink peripheral iridescence around essentially brilliant centers. The finish is reflective overall, the strike detail crisp apart from typical (for this variety) softness in the centers at Liberty's midsection and the eagle's breast.<p>This Judd number is a restrike produced after the Civil War, in the late 1860s or early 1870s; the first known auction appearance was in Edward Cogan's 1875 sale of the Col. Mendes I. Cohen Collection. The <em>uspatterns.com</em> website accounts for only five examples in silver, one of which is overstruck on an 1857 Liberty Seated half dollar. The Queller-Simpson specimen offered here is the finest known, and has an illustrious numismatic pedigree back to 1906.