1870 50C MS(PCGS#6327)
1870 50C MS (PCGS#6327)
June 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2142
- 等级
- MS62
- 价格
- 11,188
- 详细说明
- An elegant piece, richly toned with superior quality and eye appeal at the assigned grade level. Both sides are sharply struck and exhibit a nicely frosted texture to the mint finish. The 1870 has a similar mintage to the 1869-S (633,900 and 656,000 circulation strikes, respectively), and both issues are similarly elusive in today's market. Whereas the 1869-S suffered a high rate of attrition through circulation, many examples of the 1870 were likely exported and/or melted at a time when silver coins were still largely absent from circulation in the East and Midwest. Others were retained in storage until released into circulation beginning in the mid 1870s. Mint State survivors are far scarcer than those of many later date Philadelphia Mint issues in this series and with coveted CAC approval, as here, they are rare.