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1881-CC G$5 |
| Description: |
A wonderfully frosty coin that retains the desirable mint bloom which is so often lacking
from this series. The surfaces are clean with minimal signs of handling or scuffs to the
lustre. Sharp as nearly always seen, with no signs of striking softness on the devices.
Coinage for the year came to a halt after 13,886 pieces were struck, virtually all of
which entered circulation. A few were set aside, including the present coin to delight the
specialists of the Half Eagle or Carson City series. Today, PCGS and NGC have graded a
combined 4 examples in various Brilliant Uncirculated grades, with all others seen having
at least some evidence of circulation. Of these four, the present coin is the second
finest. When this coin was purchased a decade ago it was considered the Finest Known of
the date and mint. Since that time another example of this date has been certified as
MS-65 by PCGS, and this may be the same coin suspected by Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth to
have been upgraded from an MS-63 (NGC) holder to MS-64 in 2002 and has since dropped from
the NGC Census after the grading insert was returned to that service. Perhaps this coin
earned an MS-65 from PCGS upon further review. Hence, the present example is the only coin
reported as MS-63 by NGC today. It is possible that the other MS-63 (NGC) and MS-64 (NGC)
coins that were historically noted in the NGC Census are different examples that were
removed from their holders and dropped from the Census and the coin reported as MS-65 by
PCGS is a new specimen. There is an obverse die scratch which connects ER of LIBERTY as
seen on most examples of this date, and the reverse has a die line up to the left from the
second T of STATES and a heavier die line to the rim up from the serif of the C of
AMERICA. A complex curling lint mark is found on and surrounding the final obverse star
nearly touching the lower left corner of Liberty's truncation and above that point.NGC
Census: 1; none finer.From the Morgan Collection of Branch Mint Gold.
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| Price: |
$57,500.00 (2007-01-16) |
| Original page: |
http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lri
d=AN00046768
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