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

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Category: Coins > Dimes > Half Dimes

PCGS:

PCGS: 004318

Cert:

Cert: 1312201003

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Price: $2,940

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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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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
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Lot #292 - $1 A Bechtler 27 Grains, 21 Carat (Plain Edge) PCGS AU-50
Hammer: $3,500
Territorial Gold-Territorial Gold
Morals And Liberty Collection. Kagin-24 (R.3), plain edge, struck circa 1842-52. Christopher Bechtler passed away in 1842, thus it is assumed these were struck after his death. Proliferation of privately minted gold coins helped to fill the void of insufficient federal issues wherever gold rush events took place, and the A. Bechtler gold dollar is by far the most available of all Bechtler issues. A reasonably vintage example with feeble luster but very good darker accents embedded within recesses of either side.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #125 - 14K White Gold Diamond Dangle Earrings
Hammer: $875
Jewelry-Earrings
Here we have a pair of fancy dangle post style earrings with approximately 1.00 cttw, SI clarity, G-H color. The pear brilliant diamond is floating in a tear drop shaped diamond halo, dangling from a flexible double row of diamonds. Perfect to dress up any outfit! Dimensions: 0.75”x 0.25”, 2.9 dwt.