1841-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. WB-3. Rarity-3. Medium O. MS-64 (NGC).Brilliant satin to softly frosted surfaces are mostly sharply struck, mentionable softness of detail confined to the eagles head and right talon on the reverse. Although not designated as such on the NGC insert, this coin was likely part of a group of 20 (some sources say as many as 40) Mint State 1841-O half dollars discovered on the site of the old Fort Harrison, Florida in 1947. It appears that all of these coins were struck from the die marriage that we now know as WB-3. A particularly late die state example, peripheral cracks on the reverse are far more extensive than pictured in the 2011 reference A Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties, Volume III</em> by Bill Bugert.As an issue the 1841-O is a scarcer 1840s half dollar with a mintage of 401,000 coins. Even despite the aforementioned Fort Harrison find, Mint State survivors are particularly scarce and seldom offered in todays market.PCGS# 6237. NGC ID: 24GS.From the Steve Studer Collection.
