Lot 889
1825 $2.50 Capped Head. SEGS graded MS-60. Expert rim repair @ K12. Our grade is sharpness of AU55 with fine scratches and expert repair. Actually, quite pleasing even with the aformentioned problems. The mintage for the 1825 capped head left quarter eagle is 4,434 pieces. This total falls more or less in the core of the various dates as far as the 1821-28 "large diameter" issues in this series are concerned, with the first-year 1821 boasting a higher total and the 1824/1, 1826/5, and final-year 1827 much lower ones. Despite the fact that the 1821 was produced in greater numbers, David Akers (in his 1975 compendium on quarter eagles) described the 1825 as "the most common date of this rare type." It is clear that the author included the key phrase "rare type," for fear that the reader gets the wrong idea that the 1825 is a plentiful coin in an absolute sense. It is anything but.
Estimated Value $7,000 - 8,000.
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| Realized $8,625 |
