1868-S $2-1/2
DOLLARS
OR QUARTER EAGLE
PCGS No: 7808
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: "S"
(for San Francisco) below the eagle on the reverse
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Significant examples:
Recent appearances:
PCGS MS-63. Ex
– American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,”
July 25, 2003
, Lot
662, illustrated, unsold
NGC MS-62. Ex
– American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,”
July 25, 2003
, Lot
663, illustrated, sold for $4,830.00
EF-40. Ex - Bowers and Merena
Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale",
November 20-21, 2000, Lot 225, not illustrated, not sold From Abe Kosoff's sale of the
Shuford Collection, May 1968, Lot 1868
Notes:
The finest examples graded by PCGS are 2 MS-64's.
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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