1848 $10 MS(PCGS#8599)

The Summer 2022 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

3243

等级

MS60

价格

38,059

详细说明

1848 Liberty Head Eagle. MS-60 (PCGS). Delightful honey-orange surfaces present a bold strike and soft, pleasingly smooth frosty luster. When David Akers wrote his important studies on federal gold coins, published in 1980, he noted five appearances of coins called "Uncirculated," some of which could have been the same piece. He also wrote about the date, "Most known specimens are only VF or EF and strictly uncirculated examples are extremely rare." This summed the situation up perfectly, as a scanning of auction appearances confirms. What may be most remarkable about the 1848 in this grade is the list of collections that had far inferior examples, or none at all. The lead among these is the Eliasberg Collection, which contained only an "EF-40." The Garrett family, Virgil Brand, and the Norweb family also failed to acquire anything noteworthy for this date, illustrative of just how difficult it is to find. Harry W. Bass, Jr., the most aggressive student and collector of federal gold of our time, did find a lovely example graded MS-63 by PCGS from our (Stack's) sale of the exceptional James A. Stack Collection in 1994. The fabulous Bass coin has been resubmitted to PCGS in more recent times, but remains in a PCGS MS-63 holder, perhaps slightly skewing the population data for the issue. Among the finest extant, the Fairmont-JBR specimen offered here certainly stands tall among 1848 eagles available for today's gold enthusiasts. Provenance: From the Fairmont Collection - JBR Set. PCGS Population: 3; 16 finer (MS-64 finest). PCGS# 8599. NGC ID: 2633. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.