1864-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar PCGS AU Detail Cleaned Toned Rare Key Date
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Item Description
1864-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar PCGS AU Detail Cleaned Toned Rare Key Date
Low Mintage Civil War Era 1864-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar recently back from grading at PCGS where it graded PCGS AU Details, Cleaned.
*** More pictures will be uploaded later tonight! ***
I was honestly not expecting this one to come back cleaned. I actually thought this had a legitimate shot of a 58 grade so this one is likely going back for a 2nd look, or possibly I will go to NGC or CAC for a different set of eyes ...
This is a Gorgeous Coin. Beautifully toned coin with very little evidence of any kind of cleaning. Thickly album toned in deep midnight blue, sea green with hints of firey orange and gold when held and tilted in the light. Yes, toning can often mask cleanings. But, after lengthy careful scruitny and examination I am truly struggling to find much evidence of the cleaning. I do see a few wispy hair lines, but not a consistent patch or grouping and you can find a few hairlines on just about every single coin. The presence of a couple of hair lines alone does not automatically relegate any coin to being cleaned. It is not that simple or black and white! The original surfaces are at least 98% intact with a smooth, original mint sheen and good free flowing luster when rotated in the light.
Just 650,000 coins were originally minted and only a fraction of those estimated to survive today. The populationb reports for this coin ate PCGS are incredibly low in all grades, but especially in AU:
AU50 - 11
AU53 - 9
AU55 - 10
AU58 - 10
And it's even lower in Mint State Grades. In fact, across all mint state grades, MS60-66, a grand total of a whopping 16 coins have been graded by PCGS (MS 60: 0, MS61: 2; MS62: 4; MS63: 6; MS64: 1; MS65: 2; MS66: 1). Not a single Plus (+) Grade at any grade level at PCGS
To help put just how scrace this coin is, in all grades, when you look at the 1893-S Morgan Dollar, also known as "The King of the Business Strike Morgan Dollar Set", which is a coin with a tiny original mintage of just 100,000 coins struck, the PCGS Pops are exponentially higher than the 1864-S Half Dollar. In the AU grades alone (and anyone who collects Morgans should easily understand how rare an 1893-S Morganb in a problem free AU grade is) are, AU50: 146; AU53: 93; AU55: 47 (with one 55+); AU58: 15 (with one 58+). Thats a total of 303 coins graded AU50-58 compared to just 30 1864-S Seated Halves.
If you go a step deeper and examine 1893-S Morgan Dollars graded VF20 to XF45, you will find there are the following comparisons with the number on the left in blue being 1893-S Morgan Dollars compared to the number on the right being Seated Half Dollar Populations:
VF20: 487 / 11
VF25: 455 / 26
VF30: 459 / 49
VF35: 420 / 24
XF40: 550 / 36
XF45: 592 / 37
The Seated Half Dollar Population Reports in every grade are consistently 10% or even lower of what the 1893-S Morgan Dollar Population is.... WOWWWWWWW!!!
The coin in the picture is the EXACT coin you will receive.
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