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Lot:2514 1876-CC自由像半鹰金币 PCGS MS 62 1876-CC Liberty Head Half Eagle

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2021-06-12 05:00:00

2021-06-12 11:00:00

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1876-CC自由像半鹰金币 PCGS MS 62

1876-CC Liberty Head Half Eagle. Winter 1-A, the only known dies. MS-62 (PCGS). CAC. We are pleased to present a truly memorable offering for the Carson City Mint gold enthusiast, one of the finest 1876-CC half eagles extant, and one of only three Mint State examples positively known. Vivid surfaces display warm, even orange-honey patina with lighter golden-apricot highlights, especially in the protected areas around and among the design elements where original satin luster is most intact. The strike is well executed with sharp to full detail throughout the design. Wispy hairlines and slight muting to the surfaces suggest that this coin has been lightly wiped in the past, although there are few sizable marks, and none that are distracting. A light reeding mark in the obverse field between Libertys chin and star 2 and a few light grazes behind the chin should serve as useful identifiers in establishing this coins provenance.<p>Half eagle production at the Carson City Mint in 1876 amounted to just 6,887 pieces, the lowest output for this denomination at this frontier coinage facility. Widespread use in local commerce claimed most examples, and survivors are scarce to rare in all grades. Estimates for the number of coins extant have varied somewhat in recent decades, with Doug Winter providing a figure of 80 to 90 coins in all grades in the 2001 edition of <em>Gold Coins of the Carson City Mint</em>. Taking a slightly more liberal approach, and based on more modern census data, Rusty Goe provides an estimate of 120 to 140 coins in Volume 2 of his outstanding 2020 reference <em>The Confident Carson City Collector</em>. Both estimates confirm that the 1876-CC is a prime rarity at all levels of preservation and is challenging to locate even in circulated grades. With the vast majority of survivors well worn and in the VF range, even solidly graded, aesthetically pleasing EFs are elusive.<p>Both Winter and Goe assert that only two Mint State 1876-CC half eagles are positively confirmed to exist. At the top of the authors Condition Census listings for this issue is the phenomenal PCGS MS-66 that we sold as lot 11007 in our August 2012 sale of the fabulous Battle Born Collection of Carson City Mint Coinage. An NGC MS-61 is also known, which is not specifically listed in Winters book, but which Rusty Goe discusses at length in his new reference. That coin most recently appeared in Heritages January 2010 FUN Auction.<p>The present example is a newcomer to the Condition Census, and it is not mentioned among the Mint State 1876-CC half eagles discussed by Winter and Goe. In a PCGS MS-62 holder it edges out the NGC MS-61 as the new CC#2 coin for the issue. The complete census of certified Mint State 1876-CC half eagles now reads:<p>1 - <strong>PCGS MS-66.</strong> Ex Chapman brothers, 1893; John H. Clapp Collection, 1942; Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr.; our (Bowers and Ruddys) sale of the United States Gold Coin Collection (Eliasberg), October 1982, lot 540; Herbert Melnicks Grand Central sale of November 1983; Joe Kuehnert; Andy Lustig; David W. Akers session of Auction 89, July 1989, lot 1395; Superiors Father Flanagans Boys Home Sale, May 1990, lot 5598; Superiors sale of May 1991, lot 1390; Bowers and Merena Galleries, June 1991, to the following; our (Bowers and Merenas) sale of the Henry S. Lang Collection, July 2002, lot 613; our sale of the Battle Born Collection of Carson City Mint Coinage, August 2012, lot 11007. Pictured on the front cover of our Battle Born Collection catalog, and the plate coin for the issue in Rusty Goes <em>Confident Carson City Mint Collector</em> reference and on the <em>PCGS CoinFacts</em> website.<p>2 - <strong>PCGS MS-62.</strong> <strong><em>The present example</em></strong>, prior provenance unknown.<p>3 - <strong>NGC MS-61.</strong> From Heritages sale of the Ashland City Collection of Branch Mint Gold Coins & Other Rarities, January 2003, lot 4823; our (Bowers and Merenas) Baltimore Auction of June 2008, lot 3685; Heritages Los Angeles, CA U.S. Coin Auction, July 2009, lot 1264; Heritages FUN U.S. Coin Auction of January 2010, lot 2190.<p>Offered here is a superior quality example of a highly regarded key date half eagle issue, an exciting coin that will be a highlight in an advanced collection of Liberty Head half eagles or Carson City Mint gold.

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