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1839 Seated Half Dollar NGC MS63

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1839 Seated Half Dollar NGC MS63
Half Dollars 1839 With Drapery. Heavy Date. Breen-4746. NGC graded Mint State 63. <b>Pleasantly toned on both sides, the color is evenly spread as it blends from natural old-silver patina to russet and areas that are shimmering with steel blue radiance. Liberty's hair where it meets the shoulder is marginally flat, as is the eagle's left leg and claw along with the nearby top arrow feather. Choice, lustrous, well protected from the elements in its 63-class grading holder. A choice specimen from this wonderful consignment of originally toned seated halves and quarters.</b> The first obverse dies show no extra drapery at the crook of Liberty's elbow; later seated half dollar dies through 1891 have a small extra patch below it. This is nothing like the bulky cloak on the Robert Ball Hughes version found on dollars and smaller silver 1840-91. Only on half dollars does the original Sully-Gobrecht design continue (admittedly with redrawn Reich eagles rather than the Peale-Gobrecht flying eagle of the 1836 39 dollars). Nor is it coincidence that the half dollars are the only denomination thereafter to come generally well struck. Coins from the 1839 "no drapery" dies went into circulation early and stayed there; mint-state survivors were until recent years so rare that their existence was controversial, but today perhaps a dozen or two qualify at that level plus three proofs. Those from the three "with drapery" obverses are nearly as rare in mint state. <p align="center">Superior Galleries was founded in 1929 and has been a leader in
the numismatic auction business since 1971.</p> <p align="center"><b>Consignments wanted for June 2 & 3, 2002 Pre-Long Beach Sale.</b></p> <p align="center"><b>Call Steve Deeds</b> at (800) 421-0754 ext 230.</p>
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