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Auction: 26776 - America 250th Anniversary Sale Ft. Coins, Medals, Banknotes, Objets de Vertu & Ephemera
Lot: 224

NGC PF61 | USA, Proof 'Liberty Head' Quarter-Eagle of Two-and-Half-Dollars, 1900 $2.5, Philadelphia, by Christian Gobrecht, Liberty head left, rev. eagle facing left, edge milled, 6h (B-6321; JD 1, Low R.4; Fb. 114; KM 72), handling marks in otherwise brilliant fields, extremely rare with only 205 pieces struck and only half that number believed extant today rendering this piece substantially rarer than the equivalent English proofs of record for the period, in NGC holder, graded PF61 (Cert. #587603-001) [Tied 1 of 14 / 8 Finer]

Provenance

Spink, by private treaty, 2021

Heritage, Long Beach Expo, US Coins Signature Auction 1292, 31 January - 3 February 2019, lot 4589 - $3,120 [wherein graded PCGS PR61 CAC [7926.61/84110103] ~ [Tied 1 of 11 / 82 Finer]

Heritage, Long Beach Expo, US Coins Signature Auction 1239, 7-11 September 2016, lot 4523 - $2,820 [wherein graded PCGS PR60 [7926.60/28945244]


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Estimate
$2,000 to $2,600

Starting price
$1500