August 2023 Global Showcase Auction – 14 - 21 August 2023
Live Sessions: Ancient and World Coins, Currency
Part B: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part D: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part C: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 3: We, 16.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 16.08.2023, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part 5: We, 16.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 17.08.2023, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part E: Th, 17.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 17.08.2023, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 18.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Mo, 21.08.2023, from 4:00 PM CEST
Description
1857-D Liberty Head Half Eagle. Winter 41-HH. MS-61 (PCGS).
Offered is an exceptionally well preserved example of an elusive pre-Civil War Southern gold issue. Vivid orange-apricot surfaces are highly lustrous with faint semi-reflectivity in the fields. Otherwise softly frosted in texture, the strike is impressively sharp for the issuing mint with only a touch of softness confined to the central high points. The 1857-D is the seventh rarest of 24 half eagle issues from the Dahlonega Mint, a ranking it shares with the 1849-D. The mintage in 1857 was only 17,046 pieces and survivors number no more than 200 or so coins in all grades. About Uncirculated and Mint State examples are in the distinct minority, the latter comprising the Condition Census for the 1857-D.
PCGS# 8273. NGC ID: 25V4.
PCGS Population: 5; 7 finer (MS-63 finest).
From the George Schwenk Collection. Earlier from our sale of the Augustana Collection, Winter 2022 Auction, November, lot 5088.
Estimate: $18000
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| Price realized | 14'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 18'000 USD |
