1848-C $2-1/2
DOLLARS
OR QUARTER EAGLE
PCGS No: 7750
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 16,788
Proofs: 0
Designer: Christian
Gobrecht
Diameter: ±18
millimeters
Metal content:
Gold - 90%
Other - 10%
Weight: 64.5
grains (4.18 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "C" (for Charlotte, NC) below the eagle on the reverse
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Images courtesy of The
Charlottegold Company
Significant examples:
PCGS MS-62. Ex
– American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,” July
25, 2003
, Lot
650, illustrated, sold for $16,100.00
PCGS MS-60 (illustrated
above). Sold as part of the
"North Georgia Collection" of Southern Gold coins in January,
1999 by Heritage Numismatic Auctions.
PCGS AU-58. Superior
Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale", June 5-7, 2000, Lot 2096 @ $4,600.00
Recent appearances:
NGC AU-58. Ex - Bowers & Merena
Galleries' "The Lake Geneva Sale", June 28-29, 2001, Lot 1204,
illustrated, sold for $3,910.00
About Uncirculated. Ex- Stack's
"The September Sale", September 12-13, 2000, Lot 1466 @$6,612.50
Ex: American Numismatic Association Sale (Stack's August 1976, lot
2797)
VF-35. Ex - Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "Long
Beach Signature Sale", May 31-June 2, 2001, Lot 5971, plated, sold
for $718.75
Notes:
The finest example graded by PCGS is a single MS-62.
Varieties:
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial
Coins" by Walter Breen
"The PCGS Population
Report, April 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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