1840-O FIVE DOLLARS
OR HALF EAGLE
PCGS No: 8200
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 40,120
Proofs: 0
Designer: Christian
Gobrecht
Diameter: 22.5
millimeters (reduced to 21.65 millimeters later in the year)
Metal content:
Gold - 90%
Other - 10%
Weight: 129
grains (8.24 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark:
"O" (for New Orleans, LA) below the eagle on the reverse
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Images courtesy of David
Akers Numismatics, Inc.
Significant examples:
Ex - the John Jay Pittman
collection (illustrated above)
Recent appearances:
NGC AU-58. Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach" Sale, June
5-7, 2000, Lot 2191, sold for $41,400.00 "to the book"
AU-53. Ex - Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr.
Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 362, "Large
Mintmark, Narrow Mill", illustrated, not sold From Abe Kosoff's sale of the Shuford
Collection, May 1968, Lot 2075
AU-50. Ex - Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass,
Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 363,
"Narrow Mill, Small Mintmark", illustrated, sold for $1,610.00
Purchased from Stanley
Kesselman, June 26, 1970
NGC AU-50. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Cabinet
of Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part II", March 15-17, 2001, Lot 130, sold for
$977.50
PCGS EF-45. Ex - Ira
& Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc.'s "The California
Sale", October 2-3, 2000, Lot 894, plated, sold for $1,207.00
EF-40. Ex - Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass,
Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 364,
"Narrow Mill, Small Mintmark", not illustrated, not sold
ANACS Net EF-40, AU Details, Scratched. Ex - Heritage Numismatic
Auctions, Inc.'s, "Summer 2001 Long Beach Signature Sale", May
31-June 2, 2001, Lot 8952, "Narrow mill", plated, sold for
$402.50
Strong Very Fine. Ex - Stack's "The University of Notre Dame
Sale", March 20-21, 2001, Lot 1106, "Narrow Mill", not
plated, sold for $316.25
Notes:
The finest example graded by PCGS are 2 MS-62's.
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial
Coins" by Walter Breen
"The PCGS Population
Report, July 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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