Lot 663
1862 $5 Liberty. PCGS graded AU-55. Only 4,430 business strikes were minted. The Garrett-Guth gold Encyclopedia comments of this issue, "The date is rarer than most of the Charlotte and Dahlonega issues of the 1840s and 1850s. Only about two dozen 1862 half eagles have crossed the auction block in the last two decades. Mint State examples of the date are very rare and underrated … "It is estimated than less than 100 coins exist today. (PCGS Pop. 7 in AU-55, only 3 graded higher, the highest grade being a single MS-62 example. Total of 33 in all grades, 9/24/11).
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000.
Realized: $11,000