1857-O $2-1/2
DOLLARS
OR QUARTER EAGLE
PCGS No: 7784
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 34,000
Proofs: 0
Designer: Christian
Gobrecht
Diameter: 18
millimeters
Metal content:
Gold - 90%
Other - 10%
Weight: 64.5
grains (4.18 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark:
"O" (for New Orleans, LA) below the eagle on the reverse
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Significant examples:
Recent appearances:
MS-62. Ex - Bowers and Merena
Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale",
November 20-21, 2000, Lot 196, illustrated, sold for $3,220.00 From Stack's sale of May 1968, Lot
739
AU-58. Ex - Bowers and Merena
Galleries' Robert W. Schwan Collection Sale, October 26-27, 2000, Lot
2164 From the sale of the Fairfield Collection, October 1977, Lot
2164, sold for $1,840.00
NGC AU-58. Ex - Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s, "Summer
2001 Long Beach Signature Sale", May 31-June 2, 2001, Lot 8861,
plated, sold for $1,840.00
AU-50. Ex - Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass,
Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 197,
illustrated, sold for $747.50 Purchased
from Stanley Kesselman, April 28, 1967
Extremely Fine. Ex- Stack's "The September Sale",
September 12-13, 2000, Lot 1472 at $322.00
Vf-25. Ex - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coin & Collectibles'
"The Fairchild Family Trust Collection Sale", May 28-30, 2001,
Lot 1265, not illustrated, sold for $241.00
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, April 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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