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***Auction Highlight*** 1848 C Charlotte Gold Liberty Half Eagle $5 Graded Select Unc By USCG (fc)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:5,296.88 - 21,187.50 USD
***Auction Highlight*** 1848 C Charlotte Gold Liberty Half Eagle $5 Graded Select Unc By USCG (fc)
***Auction Highlight*** 1848 C Charlotte Gold Liberty Half Eagle $5 Graded Select Unc By USCG. Up for auction is a Very Rare Charlotte $5 Gold piece. It is a Near TOP POP with only 2 Graded Finer. It has Golden tellow surfaces with near mirrored fields. The coin is really quite near PL. Per David Akers (1975/88): The 1848-C is more rare as a date than the 1847-C and is equally "impossible" to obtain in strictly uncirculated condition. I have never seen an uncirculated piece and only a few strictly graded AU coins. Virtually all known specimens are in the Fine to EF range.� Per Doug Winter: �While the 1848-C half eagle has an almost identical mintage to the 1849-C, the 1848-C remains a much scarcer coin, especially in high grades. When the first edition of [my] book was released in 1987, it was unknown in Uncirculated. Two decades later, a small number of Mint State pieces exist but it remains extremely rare in Uncirculated. The 1848-C half eagle is scarcer than its reasonably high mintage figure of nearly 65,000 coins would suggest. It is nearly always seen in Very Fine and Extremely Fine grades. It is very scarce in About Uncirculated and becomes rare in the higher range of that grade. In Mint State, the 1848-C is extremely rare with just three to five known that qualify as such by current standards. Trends on this impossible coin are ms63 $43,500, ms62 $27,500 ms61 $17,500 ms60 $13,750 and au58 $8,500 A Corey's Pick, Bid to Win Coin