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1611- 1866-S $5 Liberty. No Motto NGC AU58

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1611- 1866-S $5 Liberty. No Motto NGC AU58
<Our item number 114249><B>1866-S &#36;5 Liberty. No motto. NGC graded AU-58.</B> Only 9,000 struck. Very rare date in high grade. Well struck and untoned with a few scattered light abrasions. None have been graded Mint State by either service. Boil it all down and you have an important date and design type, the 1866-S No Motto. A modest mintage by today&#39;s standards, but consistent with others of its day. Walter Breen called the date: &#34;Prohibitively rare above VF,&#34; while David Akers noted: &#34;No specimen called AU or Uncirculated has ever been offered at public auction. I have seen one choice AU piece.&#34; Fine or Very Fine is typical for the issue, with Extremely Fine rarely encountered. How rare is the date at AU-58? See the grading census that follows this description. Here is one of the well-liked rarities of the Liberty half eagle series, a coin with few peers, a marvel that will take a place of prominence in an advanced collection of U.S. half eagles.<BR><BR>While the mints at Philadelphi a and San Francisco each made 1866-dated half eagles with the IN GOD WE TRUST reverse, the San Francisco Mint is the only source of 1866-dated half eagles without the motto. It is believed, per Walter Breen&#39;s estimates that the San Francisco Mint&#39;s release of 1866-S With Motto half eagles was nearly four times as large as the press run for the No Motto half eagles of the date. <B>Pop 7; none finer.</B> <B>&#40;PCGS # 8300&#41;</B>. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;12,000-14,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 114249<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/41jpegs/114249.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/41jpegs/114249N2.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>