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Varieties:
Normal Date
Doubled 1 of date
Doubled O
Notes:
According to Walter Breen, six pairs of dies were available for
striking 1847-O Eagles.
The 1847-O has the highest
mintage of any Eagle made at the New Orleans Mint, more than double that
of the nearest challenger (1851-O). Thus, the 1847-O Eagle is easy
to locate in most circulated grades.
The grade seen most frequently is EF-40.
AU examples become scarce and only a handful of pieces are known in Mint
State.
PCGS has graded only seven
Mint State 1847-O Eagles, the finest of which are two MS-64's. NGC
has graded 12 Mint State 1847-O Eagles, the finest of which is a single
MS-63.
In
August, 2004, NGC published a partial population report of gold coins
recovered from the shipwrecked SS Republic. Included were 123
1847-O Eagles, ranging in grade from Very Fine to MS-61. 39 of the coins
were listed as "Doubled 1", four were listed as "Doubled O", and
one was listed as "Lamination Obv".
Recent appearances:
PCGS MS-64. Bowers and Merena
Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale",
November 20-21, 2000, Lot 626, "Repunched 18", illustrated, sold
for $21,850.00 Purchased
from Stanley Kesselman on April 30, 1968. Offered by Bowers & Merena Galleries for
$29,950 in
the June 11, 2001 issue of The Coin Collector
PCGS MS-61. Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W.
Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot
627, illustrated, sold for $4,370.00 From the Bowers and Merena sale of the Stanislaw Herstal
Collection, February 1974, Lot 7
PCGS AU-58. Bowers and Merena
Galleries' Robert W. Schwan Collection Sale, October 26-27, 2000, Lot 2437
at $1,495.00
AU-55. Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass,
Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 628, not
illustrated, sold for $529.00 Purchased
from Paramount's sale of February 1971, Lot 1088
Sharpness of AU-50 but a
seawater coin. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins &
Collectibles, Inc.'s "Benson Collection, Part I", February 16,
18-20, 2001, Lot 4073, not illustrated, sold for $276.00 This coin was probably recovered from a
shipwreck. The surfaces are etched by long exposure to active
currents
ANACS Net-EF-40. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins &
Collectibles, Inc.'s "The California Sale", October 2-3, 2000,
Lot 1033, "AU Details, rim filed-scratched" at $322.00
VF-30. Bowers and Merena Galleries' Robert W. Schwan Collection
Sale, October 26-27, 2000, Lot 2438 at $316.25
Sources and/or recommended
reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, July 2004" by
The
Professional Coin Grading Service
"The NGC Census Report",
August 13, 2004, www.ngcoin.com
"Walter Breen's Complete
Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins" by Walter Breen, page 550
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