1855-D $2.50 MS(PCGS#7776)

1855-D $2.50 MS (PCGS#7776)

The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale

详细说明: 1855-D Liberty Quarter Eagle. Winter 18-M, the only known dies. AU-55 (NGC). By the 1850s the Dahlonega Mint found itself in a coinage backwater as little gold reached the facility for striking into Gold Dollars, Quarter Eagles and Half Eagles. Local sources of precious metal had dried up considerably since the height of the Lower Appalachian Gold Rush, and most of the gold bullion from California that was being shipped to the Eastern states found its way to either the Philadelphia or New Orleans facilities. Given these circumstances, a very limited mintage of 1,123 pieces for the 1855-D Quarter Eagle is easy to understand. Writing in the 2003 edition of the book <em>Gold Coins of the Dahlonega Mint: 1838-1861</em>, Doug Winter accounts for only 45-55 survivors and ranks the 1855-D as one of the rarest D-mint Quarter Eagles in all grades.<br />     Evenly patinated in honey-orange color, this coin exhibits a typical quality of strike for this extremely challenging issue. The overall detail is somewhat soft, although we stress that wear is expectably light given the Choice AU grade from NGC. A bit scuffy with scattered abrasions that include a thin, nearly vertical graze in the left-reverse field that should serve as a useful pedigree marker.