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1857-D $5 MS62 PCGS

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:14,000.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1857-D $5 MS62 PCGS
<B>1857-D $5 MS62 PCGS.</B></I> Ex: Bass. Variety 28-V. Formerly offered as lot 473 in the Bass III sale, where it was described in part as, "This is an extremely rare coin and is among the very finest known. Extremely sharp strike with frosty, brilliant yellow gold luster. Only occasional surface marks are noted, as expected. With a high degree of aesthetic appeal, which is quite unusual. Doug Winter noted: 'The majority of 1857-D half eagles do not have especially good eye appeal. This is the result of poor strikes, inferior planchets and numismatic abuse. Any example with good eye appeal is quite rare.' This example, which may qualify as second finest known is equal in quality to the plate coin in the Winter reference. However, the present piece is much more sharply struck.<BR> "Date logotype fairly shallow in the die--more resembling a typical Philadelphia Mint half eagle than one from Dahlonega."<BR> Since those words were written in 2000, the population data have changed little. Both NGC and PCGS each show three pieces certified in MS62, with two finer, which could in reality represent only a small handful of individual coins (12/07).<BR><I>Purchased from Joe Flynn, March 17, 1978; Bass III (Bowers and Merena, 5/00), lot 473; The Ashland City Collection (Heritage, 5/2003), lot 4798.</B></I><BR><BR><B>Coin Engraver:</B> Christian Gobrecht<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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