Lot 3702
1854-C $2.50 Liberty. NGC graded MS-61. Warm peach-orange to golden toning, a highly attractive combination on any gold issue, but especially desirable in a low mintage rarity like 1854-C. Better than average strike, with marginal weakness seen only in the hair at the brow and on the eagle's neck and leg feathers. Only 7,295 minted. The presently offered coin is one of the very finest examples graded. A small handful of coins surpass it in numerical grade, but when the combination of the present numerical grade is supplemented by a very generous measure of eye appeal, this coin will hold its own with any other example. If ever bidders needed fresh evidence of a coin's value, it is this handsome MS61 1854-C quarter eagle, a coin we are confident will achieve a successful new high for the issue when the bidding is through. Pop 5; 6 in 62.
Estimated Value $12,000 - 14,000.
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| Realized $13,225 |
