Lot 884
RESPLENDENT 1805 NGC MS 64. NGC graded MS-64. An exceptionally choice early half eagle with brilliant, frosty yellow gold luster. Examination will note a few scattered tick marks, and a small area of adjustment marks on the reverse from 8:00 to 11:00 crossing TED and the wing tip, and a few others on and near the shield. Obverse weakness at stars 3, 4 and 5 is opposite the reverse adjustment marks.
The combined NGC and PCGS Population Reports show only 13 so graded, with a single coin graded higher by NGC. Therefore, this is one of the very best available of the date.
Examination with a glass notes a light die crack up from the rim through which bisects the 0 of the date up to the curl just behind Liberty's ear, and faintly up to the left bottom of B. A heavy patch of rust is noted at LI, and there is a die line (a file mark on the actual die) extending from the eighth star over Liberty's cap. The reverse die is an early die state.
Estimated Value $20,000 - 30,000.
From A-Mark Coin Co., March 16, 1978; Bowers and Merena, Inc.'s H.W. Bass, Jr. II sale, October 1999, lot 765.
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