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Item: 1881 Gold $5 PCGS, MS-64

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Category: Coins > $5.00 Gold > Liberty Head

PCGS:

PCGS: 008354

Cert:

Cert: 41722344

Price:

Price: $1,015

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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #231 - Collections of Mercury dimes and Roosevelt dimes in a Dansco album
Hammer: $790
Collector Lots-Dimes
Wry Legals Consignment. All but one. Only one solitary missing piece from this joint series Dansco album collection of Mercury and Roosevelt dimes and that is the 1916-D. Every other example from 1916 through 1945 is present and accounted for with mostly cleaned examples. There are several bright and white uncirculated examples mixed in for a fairly stark level of contrast. Ironically, there is a 1942/1-D issue that is in Extra Fine condition and really steals the show. The remainder of this collection is a complete run of Roosevelt dimes from 1946 through 2002 that includes the proof and silver proof issues as well (ck).

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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.