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1821 $5 Capped Head NGC MS62

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1821 $5 Capped Head NGC MS62
<b>1821 &#36;5 Capped Head. NGC graded MS62.</b> Very sharply struck in rich greenish yellow gold with shimmering highlights on some of the hair curls, brow, nose, cap, and tip of bust. The centers are slightly reflective and the borders frostier around the stars and letters in the legend; throughout both sides the surface is quite clean with very few of the expected small marks noted. Such a pleasing specimen deserves to be flushed with pride at the good fortune to be from a source with such an illustrious provenance as the Eliasberg collection. When the white heat of bidding is over and done with, the next owner may very well have his name appended to the growing line of famous previous owners.

This is one of the rarest dates in the entire Half Eagle series, although the mintage figure might indicate otherwise. PCGS has graded only four examples of this date, the finest of which is a single MS-66! NGC has graded seven examples, including a single MS-61, a single MS-62 &#40;this Eliasberg specimen&#41;, and a single MS-63. As on all known examples of this date there are raised die lines below the final star on the obverse. The 1821 Half Eagle is, for some reason, among the more overlooked rarities from this period, often eclipsed by the 1819 and 1825/4 issues. We estimate there to be 30 or so around, with a typical specimen grading just Extremely Fine. The specimen offered here clearly rates high and is one of the choicer seen or offered for sale in many years. Coin is in NGC holder 654330-005 with the notation that it is the Eliasberg specimen.

EXTREMELY RARE 1821 HALF EAGLE <b>&#40;PCGS # 8129&#41;</b> <i>
The Springdale Collection of Early U.S. Gold Coins.</i>

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