Lot 1810
Rare 1929 Half Eagle PCGS graded Mint State 64. PCGS graded MS-64. After a hiatus of 13 years, Half Eagle production erupted again from the bowels of the Philadelphia Mint in 1929. Little did anyone know at the time that these would likely be the last Half Eagles coined for circulation. The primitive counting arm detected 662,000 at the final tick when production ceased. Of these, virtually all were melted after a brief stint in the Federal Reserve, unceremoniously tossed into the ovens to be melted back into gold bars to prop up the Federal Reserve and stored under Fort Knox. The combined totals graded by NGC and PCGS are 317 coins, not many to represent that original 662,000. Of the few survivors, the combined services have seen only 93 in this grade, with a scant 12 graded higher. That makes this piece one of the best around. Lustrous in the fields on both sides. One short scrape is noted from the Indian's forehead to the L of LIBERTY.
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