This scarcer New Orleans Mint eagle from the 1840s offers sharp striking detail to most areas of the design. The top of Libertys portrait and the bottom of the reverse eagle are quite blunt, however, to the point where a filled die may be to blame. Pale sandy-silver highlights drift over otherwise olive-gold surfaces that reveal faint traces of satiny mint luster. Despite having a mintage of 81,780 pieces, only 125 to 150 coins are believed extant, most of which grade no finer than Choice VF. Several varieties of this issue have contributed to its popularity among advanced Liberty eagle and Southern gold specialists. One of these, represented here, has traditionally been classified as an overdate, although modern research has confirmed that the artifact within the lower loop of the digit 6 is actually the result of slight doubling to the four digit date logotype used to prepare this obverse die. The 1846/5-O attribution is not noted on the PCGS insert.,,PCGS# 8596. NGC ID: 262X.,,
