1874-CC 50C MS(PCGS#6347)

September 2020 Collectors Choice Online Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

94264

等级

FR2

价格

11,488

详细说明

1874-CC Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Arrows. WB-3a. Rarity-6. Railroad Track Reverse. Fair-2 (PCGS). CAC. The 1874-CC is one of only two Carson City Mint issues for the brief Arrows, Motto half dollar type of 1873 to 1874. It is rarer than the 1873-CC Arrows in all grades and, with a mintage of 59,000 pieces, it is one of the key issues among Liberty Seated half dollars. According to Bill Bugert in the 2010 reference A Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties, Volume II: Carson City Branch Mint, only 300 to 350 examples of the 1874-CC are extant in all grades. Most survivors are of the WB-3 variety, as here, and the vast majority are in low grades with heavily worn, if not also impaired surfaces. Locating an attractive EF such as this is by no means an easy task, a fact that underscores the important bidding opportunity that this lot represents. The Carson City Mint employed three obverse dies and a single reverse die in three marriages to strike all known 1874-CC half dollars. As previously stated, most survivors are from the WB-3 die pairing, the reverse in a later state than in the WB-1 and WB-2 marriages, with a small raised die defect at the back of the eagle's head below the letter T in TRUST. Bill Bugert refers to this curious feature as a "cowlick." An even later state of this reverse die is known, attributed as WB-3a, represented here, and referred to as the "Railroad Track Reverse" due to prominent die damage from the rim through the letters TE in STATES. The WB-3a die state is rare. Provenance: From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection. PCGS# 6347. NGC ID: 24LB. 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.