<strong>Obv:</strong> Standard Silver design with a right-facing bust of Liberty as the focal device. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is around the border and the motto IN GOD WE TRUST is on a scroll below. Liberty is wearing a headband inscribed LIBERTY and ornamented with a single star. <strong>Rev:</strong> A wreath of oak and laurel leaves surrounds the denomination 50 CENTS with the inscription STANDARD SILVER above and the date 1869 below. This is a beautiful Gem with an amazing array of iridescent rose, peach, gold, electric blue and violet toning. Certainly among the finest known survivors of Judd-757, a type with fewer than six specimens believed extant per the website uspatterns.com. Worthy of strong bids!,PCGS# 70987.,PCGS Population: 1; 1 finer (Proof-66 RB). There are no RD examples listed at this service.,From Superiors Premier Auction Sale of January 1995, lot 1305; our (American Numismatic Rarities) Classics Sale of December 2003, lot 297.
