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Item: 1839 Half Dollar Reeded Edge Large Letters, AU +/Light Clean

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Category: Coins > Half Dollars > Capped Bust

PCGS:

PCGS: 006179

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Price: $1,030

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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #748 - 1807 Large Stars, 50/20 O-112 NGC AU-53
Half Dollars-Capped Bust, Lettered Edge
Bachelor Simon Collection. Overton-112, the die-marriage ubiquitously used to represent the "50/20c" reverse. Gleaming silver-bright surfaces make this an instant best-seller example for the collector who must have the most brilliant possible circulated coin for his type or date collection. The coin expresses outstanding luster and suffers merely one delicate scratch on the middle curl as well as extensive flowline texture on the reverse.

The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #428 - 1857 PCGS MS-64+ TOP POP
Hammer: $20,500
Gold $5-Liberty Head Half Eagle
2 graded MS-64+, zero higher at PCGS, thus placing claims as the "finest known" 1857 five-dollar gold piece. NGC has never graded one above MS-63+, affirming the extreme rarity of choice and better examples. That so few survive seems surprising given a not-so-high but reasonable mintage of 98-thousand coins.

Tilting the coin back and forth beneath good lighting reveals exactly the kind of gleaming, satin-textured flowline effect one expects as the mint had ample experience striking superior half-eagles by 1857. One copper spot clings to the first start and a tiny carbon dot randomly flings into the obverse right field. A loupe also detects a one tiny hairline at the upper chin, with this trio of characteristics perhaps conspiring to limit full gem potential. The reverse seems particularly free from any mentionable defects while the entire presentation takes full advantage of an exceptional strike.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #243 - 14K Yellow Gold Elgin Pocket Watch
Hammer: $1,000
Jewelry-Watches
Here we have a 14K yellow gold 6 size hunter case pocket watch. The movement is marked “917583 and Elgin Nat'l Watch Co.”. Over the 13 jewel movement is a dust cover that is seldom seen in pocket watches. 48.1 dwt.