1861-D FIVE DOLLARS
OR HALF EAGLE
PCGS No: 8290
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 1,597
Proofs: 0
Designer: Christian
Gobrecht
Diameter: ±21.65
millimeters
Metal content:
Gold - 90%
Other - 10%
Weight: 129
grains (8.24 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "D" (for Dahlonega, GA) below the eagle on the reverse
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Images courtesy of Hancock & Harwell Rare Coins
Significant examples:
PCGS MS-61. Ex - Green Pond
Collection 08/1998 via Heritage Rare Coin Galleries/Jeff Garrett; Green Pond
Collection (Superior 03/2000, 872, unsold); 2001 ANA Sale (Heritage 08/2001:
7809, unsold); Fun 2003 Sale (Bowers and Merena 01/2003: 674, $55,200.00);
private collection via Gary Adkins - Heritage 01/2004: 9041, $43,700.00,
Variety 39-EE
NGC AU-58. Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach" Sale, June
5-7, 2000, Lot 2211, sold for $18,400.00 "to the book"
Recent appearances:
PCGS AU-55. Ex
– American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,”
July 25, 2003
, Lot
713, illustrated, not sold From the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection
sale, Part III, November 2000, Lot 492. Earlier, from Superior
Galleries' sale of December 1972, Lot 1955. The certified grade has
not changed since the Bass III offering.
PCGS AU-50. Ex - Superior Galleries's Ft. Lauderdale Mid-Winter ANA
2000 sale,
2000, Lot 873 - Superior Galleries'
"The ANA 2001 National Money Show Auction", March 8-9, 2001, Lot
821, unsold
Notes:
The finest examples graded by PCGS are 2 MS-63'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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