Lot 1394
1840 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded AU-55 Premium Quality. There's AU's and there's AU's. Here's one of the prettiest of them this cataloguer has seen in 25 years of doing this. The obverse is like looking at a rainbow: a ring of bright aqua-blue iridescence around the stars, and rings of rose-gold iridescence inside and outside of that circle. The reverse has only the pale-champagne color on top of frosty white. A visual treat! Oh, that's right. We were so enchanted by the color we forget the rest. Okay, the strike is sharp on the eagle, whose feathers exhibit pockets of frosty luster within each. On the obverse, 11 of the 13 stars show detail right into the center of the points, while the other 2 are 90% struck up. Liberty's locks, face, hands, feet and the clasp on her gown are sharply delineated by the strike. The wear is evident but slight. Some scattered ticks take nothing away from this coin's immense appeal. The upper left reverse field shows some concentrated action mixed with some rolling lines. But this is a coin among coins--one for a true connoisseur collector. We hope it goes to such a person.
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