1850-C Liberty Head Quarter Eagle. Winter-2. EF Details--Cleaned (PCGS).Warmly patinated in honey-gold, this overall boldly defined example presents uncommonly well for the assigned grade. Despite a limited mintage of 9,148 coins, the 1850-C is the second most frequently encountered Charlotte Mint quarter eagle from the 1850s. Survivors are scarce in an absolute sense, of course, Doug Winter (Gold Coins of the Charlotte Mint: 1838-1861, 2008 edition) accounting for only 175 to 225 coins extant in all grades. The present example is of even further significance to specialists given the Winter-2 attribution, this being the scarcer of the two known die marriages of the issue.From the Maurice Snow Collection. Acquired from Harry J. Forman, March 18, 1981.
