SGBH Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Deep golden sunset toning give this scarcer D-mint 1949 a boost. The surfaces are creamy with moon-glow luster and show none of the muting often seen

Crisp freezing white, undisturbed mint luster that is lightly toned and gleaming.

Dappled finger-printed golden to amber toning on this first year of issue. The grade says it all.

First year of issue. Gorgeous deep toning on this handsome example. Though he ranks among the most influential leaders in American history, Benjamin F

Metal flow enhances the billowing mint dazzle that emits like satiny lightning from the surfaces, giving the coin a shimmering, glowing appearance. Th

Another sharp half dollar featuring grand colors and undoubtedly originating in an original Mint Set.

Milky white to silvery toning.

Smooth mint luster characterizes the surfaces on this lovely toned piece. It may have once been in a Mint Set which accounts for the fresh quality of

Fresh-as-fallen-snow crispness leaps to the viewer's eye of nearly pristine originality with warm amber reds and golds plus a little silvery sky...

The blazing silver-white surfaces are smooth from rim to rim with no carbon to report and just a little veil of toning. Sharply struck and fully lustr

Nicely toned. Faithful to every detail from a full blow by the dies, we see sharp devices in the hair and bell, which lacks only some minor detail to

A boldly struck beautiful toned example, posibly from a Mint Set, with great depth to the detail on the main devices and nice satiny bloom.

Well detailed with extraordinary mint luster and snow whiteness to beautiful toning that is capped off by some of the freshest, mark-free fields aroun

Deep, wonderful toning sets this 1949 half dollar apart from the rest. Mint frostiness like brilliant frosted glass gives this coin much of its life a

Original toning. The silvery luster underneath this surface on both sides is full with a somewhat satin texture.

Deep speckled originality atop splendid mint frostiness makes this a worthwhile Gem.

A satiny gem with gorgeous red and green color that practically leaps from the surfaces. Faint traces of champagne and others too bring out the fullne

White frost on both sides.

Fully struck on each side, the original surfaces have a sheet of natural toning over the luster that shimmers and sparkles and is uninterrupted by any

Dappled toning light sunlight through the leaves of a forest canopy. The underneath surface is a modest silvery bright, with subtle rather than bright

Excellent detail from a strong strike, the surfaces show majestic shades of original color. Don't expect the usual halfhearted impression left b...

Nice speckled toning characterizes the color of this gem.

Uneven but all original toning over silvery surfaces. Always difficult to acquire fully struck, this 1949-S issue seemed plagued with soft strikes on

A little original toning plus outstanding mint fresh sparkle.

Attractive silvery white luster with original toning at the rims; the reverse has more fully developed satiny gray patina.

A sparkling gem of the finest order. Intense cartwheel flash blends smoothly with pale toned highlights on the mirror surfaces.

A pristine white Proof whose deep surface reflection is, as it were, a reflection on its high quality.

The surfaces have a bright, metallic, satin-like sheen to the color from the underlying cartwheel frost. Many of these fully struck Franklins trace to

Attractively toned surfaces. A first-rate gem in its grade.

Outstanding color and surfaces complement each other here.

A frosted white 1950 half dollar that has a good strike and careening luster.

Almost unsurpassable in terms of surface preservation or originality, both sides are delightfully free of problems.

Looks as though it were minted a moment ago! Superb.

What pleases us most about these Bruhn collection half dollars is their remarkable clean surfaces and beauty. It stands repeating that many of the fre

Exquisite color and surfaces mean that bidders should expect to see active competition for it.

This lovely Gem is finished in satin luster with glowing fields and sharply impressed devices.

A well toned example for the delight of the "full bell lines" collector.

Pale oyster gray luster with some golden brown at the edge.

Another, delightfully toned. A gem.

Full golden brown toning on gem, lustrous surfaces.

Original old "fingerprint" type golden brown toning -- not necessarily the sort of color that is for everyone, but crisp and unsullied fro...

Well toned over outstanding Gem quality frosty luster.

A frosted white Gem that has a good strike and flashy luster.

A nice example of this date, the fields being watery and lustrous, the designs boldly struck, superbly preserved and well detailed.

A highly reflective gem with superlative surface that radiates boldly beneath nice highlights. Possessed of a much finer strike than is typically foun

Another outstanding gem quality Proof.

Bright silver-gray color with a nice patina of original toning lights up the surfaces of this well struck and nicely preserved 1952 half dollar.

A nicely toned Gem of this popular, inexpensive issue.

Mostly briilliant and definitely carefully preserved.

Essentially white except for a toning spot at the back of the head.