Lot 3377
1840-C $5 Liberty. Sharpness of VF-30. Cleaned at one time with some minor marks about. Any Charlotte Mint gold piece has to be respected for being scarce. Mintage was low in the 1840s, though climbing by the late-1840s. As these were put into circulation and used hard, the average grade seen tends to be Very Fine. Curiously, at the same time these were current, a private manufacturing firm in North Carolina was striking competing gold coins made from locally mined gold in competition with the Charlotte Mint: The Bechtler establishment, whose years of operation were 1830 to 1852.
Estimated Value $700 - 750.
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| Realized $1,006 |
