August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
1898-S Barber Half Dollar. MS-65 (PCGS).
This coin is an exceptionally attractive example of an issue that when seen is apt to be in significantly lower grades. Light champagne-apricot and powder blue iridescence adorns the peripheries with softly frosted luster throughout. The strike is full over even the most intricate design elements, and the surfaces are as nice as would be expected for the impressive Gem Mint State grade assigned by PCGS. This is a splendid coin from both technical and aesthetic viewpoints, one that will certainly please the connoisseur. The 1898-S has a below average rate of survival for a San Francisco Mint Barber half dollar from the 1890s, especially given its mintage of 2,358,550 coins. In addition to domestic circulation, which was extensive, many examples were shipped to the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War ended in the summer of that year. Such use further diminished the number of coins that could be preserved in Mint State. Additional half dollars from the 1899-S and 1900-S issues were also sent to the Philippines, David Lawrence (1991) noting that the 1898-S is the scarcest of these three issues.
PCGS# 6482. NGC ID: 24M5.
PCGS Population: 9; 7 finer (MS-66+ finest).
From the Srotag Collection. Earlier from Jimmy Hayes; later, Larry Whitlow, to the following; Heritage's sale of the Dale Friend #2 All-Time PCGS Registry Set of Barber Half Dollars, January 2009 FUN Signature Auction, lot 3881; Heritage's sale of the Elbesaar Collection, August 2011 Chicago Signature Auction, lot 7206.
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| Price realized | 5'500 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 6'500 USD |
