1881 $2.50 MS(PCGS#7833)

1881 $2.50 MS (PCGS#7833)

The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale

详细说明: 1881 Liberty Quarter Eagle. MS-62 (PCGS). OGH. Mint employees at the Philadelphia facility were clearly not interested in striking Quarter Eagles in 1881, for only 640 examples were produced for circulation that year. Most of those coins actually did enter circulation, and today the typical 1881 Two-and-a-Half encountered in the market grades EF or AU. The present example, however, is a solidly graded BU with no readily evident rub. Both sides are richly toned, the obverse with mottled reddish-orange and hazy-silver colors and the reverse with a more even deep-rose sheen. More direct angles do allow one to appreciate a semi-prooflike finish on both sides, the obverse actually tending toward a fully prooflike description. Wispy abrasions are small in size and singularly inconspicuous. Tied for finest-certified honors at PCGS, this Condition Census 1881 Quarter Eagle is sure to be of keen interest to the advanced collector.