1890 $2.50, DCAM PR(PCGS#97916)
1890 $2.50, DCAM PR (PCGS#97916)
June 2020 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1179
- 等级
- PR66+DCAM
- 价格
- 194,951
- 详细说明
- Impressive Deep Cameo Gem Proof 1890 Quarter Eagle Just 4 Graded Finer by PCGS 1890 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle. Proof-66+ Deep Cameo (PCGS). This magnificent Gem Proof boasts thick mint frosting across all elements including Liberty's portrait, the stars and the eagle. Inspection offers a graduate course in quality, with boldly mirrored fields and a slight orange-peel surface texture created by heating the planchets prior to striking these coins. This combination of frost and mirrors produces a coin of extraordinary beauty, far and away different than a mint state product. The degree of contrast to create the Deep Cameo coinage of this era was perfected during the 1890s, which is when the greatest number of these visually remarkable coins are known from the US Mint. The present Gem Proof 1890 quarter eagle is an absolute prize worthy of the most advanced collection. The total Proof quarter eagle mintage for 1890 was a mere 93 pieces, up appreciably from the total of just 48 coins achieved in 1889. Perhaps just half of this original mintage has survived across all grades today, leaving the few Gems to be heavily prized by today's collectors. At least two of these survivors are permanently impounded in the National Numismatic Collection housed by the Smithsonian Institution, and both of which are merely Choice Proofs. The present Proof-66+ Deep Cameo example is among the finest of this small extant population, with just 4 coins certified finer by PCGS through Proof-67+ Deep Cameo. PCGS Population: 4; just 4 finer. PCGS# 97916. NGC ID: 288D. 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.