1870-CC Liberty Seated Half Dollar. WB-5. Rarity-6. Good Details--Scratch (PCGS). Pleasingly original surfaces feature warm mauve and pewter gray patina. This is a nice, more affordable example of the key date 1870-CC half dollar. With a mintage of just 54,617 pieces for the first Carson City Mint half dollar, survivors are scarce to rare at all levels of preservation. From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection. Earlier from our (Stacks) sale of the Philip G. Straus Collection, May 1959, lot 1975; our (Stacks) sale of January 1991, lot 786. Lot tags included.
