August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
About Uncirculated 1839-C Half Eagle
Numismatically Significant Issue
1839-C Liberty Head Half Eagle. Winter-1, the only known dies. AU-53 (PCGS).
Attractive orange-gold surfaces with subtle pinkish-rose and olive highlights eident as the coin rotates under a light. The amount of detail present is noteworthy for an issue that is usually seen well worn, and also with a poor quality of strike. This piece is soft in isolated areas, notably around the obverse periphery, above Liberty's brow and at the eagle's talons. Otherwise, however, we note universally sharp definition throughout. Satiny in texture with appreciable luster for the grade. One of the scarcest Charlotte Mint half eagles, the 1839-C is also eagerly sought by specialists as the first Liberty Head issue from this Southern coinage facility and the only one to display the C mintmark on the obverse above the date. As well, Liberty's portrait has an appreciably different design on half eagles of this date than on coins dated 1840 and later. This issue ranks within the top 10 for rarity in the Charlotte Mint half eagle series (per Doug Winter, Gold Coins of the Charlotte Mint: 1838-1861, 2008), and survivors are particularly elusive in grades above VF. This is only our second offering for a problem free AU since 2014 - a testament to the condition rarity of this coin.
PCGS# 8192. NGC ID: 25S8.
From Heritage's Denver ANA Signature Auction of August 2017, lot 5606.
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| Price realized | 13'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 20'000 USD |
