1893-O FIVE DOLLARS
OR HALF EAGLE
PCGS No: 8385
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 110,000
Proofs: 0
Designer: Christian
Gobrecht
Diameter: ±21.65
millimeters
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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Recent appearance:
AU-55. Ex - Bowers and Merena
Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale",
November 20-21, 2000, Lot 561, not illustrated, sold for $747.50 Purchased from Stanley Kesselman,
June 14, 1967
About Uncirculated or thereabouts.
Ex - Stack's "65th Anniversary Sale", October 17-19, 2000, Lot
1761, not plated, sold for $299.00
Notes:
The finest example graded by PCGS is a single MS-64.
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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