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Stacks Bowers Auctions – 1862-S Liberty Seated Quarter with CAC Gold Sticker

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1862-S Liberty Seated Quarter. Briggs 1-A. MS-62 (PCGS). CAC–Gold Label. OGH.

Offered is an incredible Mint State example of this key date early San Francisco Mint quarter. Essentially Choice, as the coveted gold label CAC designation suggests, both sides are minimally marked with full, billowy satin luster.

sb_ana16_session1Pleasingly sharp in strike and untoned apart from a splash of russet iridescence at the base of Liberty’s portrait near the shield point. Very scarce and challenging as an issue, the 1862-S Liberty Seated quarter (just 67,000 pieces produced) merits a Rarity-6 rating in Mint State according to Larry Briggs (The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of United States Liberty Seated Quarters, 1991).

As with all S-Mint Liberty Seated issues of the era, these quarters circulated heavily with the eventual loss of most examples. What few Uncirculated coins have survived did so generally as a matter of chance, what with no contemporary numismatic interest in mintmarked coinage.

This premium quality survivor will serve as a focal point in an advanced collection of this extremely challenging series.

PCGS# 5457. NGC ID: 23TW.
PCGS Population: 8; 8 finer (MS-64 finest).

To be sold on August 9th at the Stacks Bowers ANA Auction Session#1  as Lot # 278

About Stack’s Bowers Galleries

Stack’s Bowers Galleries conducts live, Internet and specialized auctions of rare U.S. and world coins and currency and ancient coins, as well as direct sales through retail and wholesale channels. The company’s 80-year legacy includes the cataloging and sale of many of the most valuable United States coin and currency collections to ever cross an auction block —The D. Brent Pogue Collection, The John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, The Norweb Collection, The Cardinal Collection and The Battle Born Collection — to name just a few. World coin and currency collections include The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection of World Gold Coins, The Kroisos Collection, The Alicia and Sidney Belzberg Collection, The Wa She Wong Collection, The Guia Collection, The Thos. H. Law Collection, and The Robert O. Ebert Collection.

Topping off this amazing numismatic history is the inclusion of the world record for the highest price ever realized at auction for a rare coin, the 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar graded Specimen-66 (PCGS) that realized over $10 million, part of their sale of the famed Cardinal Collection. The company is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, with offices in New York, Wolfeboro, Hong Kong, and Paris. Stack’s Bowers Galleries is an Official Auctioneer for several important numismatic conventions, including American Numismatic Association events, the New York International Numismatic Convention, the Professional Numismatists Guild New York Invitational, the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring, Summer and Winter Expos, and its April, August and December Hong Kong Auctions

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