Now Available

Item:

Item: 1838 Half Dime No Drapery Small Stars NGC, MS-65

Category:

Category: Coins > Dimes > Half Dimes

PCGS:

PCGS: 004318

Cert:

Cert: 1312201003

Price:

Price: $2,940

View Details Add To Cart Buy Now

Upcoming Auction Highlights

The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
See the Auction Schedule for complete details.
Lot #348 - 1904 PCGS PR-67CAM
Gold $2.50-Liberty Head Quarter Eagle
3 graded PR-67 CAM, 1 higher at PCGS. Between them, PCGS and NGC have managed fewer than fifteen aggregate UCAM/DCAM events in any grade, speaking to the difficulty of locating a specimen with superior contrast. This is partly due to a lack of special effort on the part of the mint to create high-contrast proof dies after the turn of the century. Nevertheless, this coin boasts exceptionally reflective fields on the obverse -- not quite UCAM but close -- and very good mirrors on the reverse. Contrast is thereby enhanced, but truthfully, the frosted-matte texture on the devices is also not strong enough to yield the kind of contrast that a UCAM designation demands.

Technically, the coin appears virtually flawless under 8x magnification, with fields that are as bright and pristine as possible and showing an absolute absence of hairlines. A single, tiny, sintered dot floats in space beneath the hair bun, just right of the smallest imaginable comma-shaped abrasion, and together, these could provide a pedigree marker for future collectors. A lintmark also occupies one point of the eleventh star.

The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
Download Auction Prices Realized
Lot #244 - Fifteen error coins certified by NGC
Hammer: $625
Collector Lots-Error Coins
Clem Stevens Collection. Even the vaunted United States Mint will occasionally make a mistake, fifteen such examples fill this massive NGC certified group lot with a wide array of different Mint Errors. Included in this lot are the following issues: a Lincoln cent MS-67RB Struck 7% off center, a Lincoln cent MS-65RB 40% curved Clip (1.75gr), a 1979-D MS-65RB off center on Curved Clip Planchet (2.67gr), a 1998 MS-65RD Lincoln Cent Broadstruck, a 2000 MS-66RD Lincoln Cent Broadstruck, a 2001 MS-65RD Lincoln Cent Broadstruck, a 2001 MS-64RB Partial collar with Obverse Brockage Lincoln Cent, a 1964 MS-66 Struck 90% off center Jefferson nickel, a 1974 Double Struck 2nd Strike off center MS-64 Jefferson nickel, a 2000 MS-66 Struck 70% off center Jefferson nickel, a 2000-D MS-66 Struck 65% off center Uniface Reverse Jefferson nickel, a 1998-P MS-64 Straight Clip with Partial Collar Washington quarter, a 1972-D MS-67 10% Curved Clip Kennedy half-dollar, a 1972-D MS-66 Struck 15% off center Kennedy half-dollar, and a (1971-2018) 50C Blank (11.9gr). Enough said (ck).

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
Download Auction Prices Realized
Lot #38 - Platinum Diamond Ring, Artificially Irradiated Bluish Green Diamond, SGL Report # 240418A-SJ
Hammer: $2,300
Jewelry-Rings
It is not everyday you see a big, green diamond! While this one has been enhanced by artificial irradiation, it doesn’t mean it is any less spectacular looking! The center diamond measures 15x7.9x4.9 (limited to measuring in the mounting) and is estimated to weigh 3.50 ct., SI1 clarity, Bluish Green color, Stone Groups Laboratories Report # 240418A-SJ. There are four small round diamond accents on the side weighing approximately .15 cttw, SI clarity, H color. ring size 8, 5.0 dwt.