1876-S $5 MS(PCGS#8341)

1876-S $5 MS (PCGS#8341)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

详细说明: This handsome 1876-S half eagle is boldly defined and features vivid honey-orange color with tinges of pinkish-rose iridescence. Plenty of satiny mint luster remains, and the surfaces are nicely composed for having seen actual, however light commercial use.The 1876-S is one in a line up of elusive San Francisco Mint fives from this decade. Just 4,000 coins were struck, the vast majority of which have long since been lost to circulation. Survivors are few and far between, and most are well worn, if not also impaired. Even the National Numismatic Collection in the Smithsonian Institution can only muster a VG-10 for this issue. Until the last decade or so, the Garrett specimen in PCGS (formerly NGC) MS-65 was the only Uncirculated 1876-S half eagle known. The current PCGS Population Report lists an MS-60 along with the newcomer to the market graded MS-61 from our Spring 2022 Auction sale of the Fairmont Collection's Hendricks Set. The NGC Census reports a single grading event for the issue in Mint State, at MS-62. Certified Choice AU examples are nearly as rare, and this AU-55 example will certainly see spirited bidding from advanced gold enthusiasts.