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1895 Barber Half Dollar, MS66+
The Remarkable Dr. Price Coin

1895 50C MS66+ PCGS Secure. CAC. Ex: Duckor/Price. Boldly struck from nearly perfect dies with exceedingly sharp design details. The reverse has a faint die crack from the left edge of the ribbon, vertically down to the wing. No other die defects are evident on either side.
This highly lustrous Premium Gem is an exceptional example for the grade, as the MS66+ grade indicates. Both sides have frosty luster beneath vivid iridescent toning. Blue-green, violet, and gold toning resides on ivory surfaces, with a few trivial surface marks mostly confined to the obverse.
The MS66 PCGS Hugon specimen and an MS66 NGC example in our February 2007 sale are the only two pieces we have offered in that grade, with none finer. In fact, only a single MS67 PCGS coin exceeds this piece in the population reports.
Although nearly 2 million of these coins were minted, the date is a condition rarity in Gem or finer grades. Most contemporary collectors selected proof examples, a tradition that continued into the 1980s when collectors began to notice the true rarity of Mint State examples. David Akers explains in the Price catalog: "Most great Barber Half Dollar collections of the past (cf. Norweb, Emery-Nichols, Eliasberg) contained Proofs, not business strikes, of the P Mint issues in the series since the Proofs were always considered 'better' and thus more desirable than the Uncirculated pieces to old-time collectors."
A single notable exception to the rule is the R.E. Cox, Jr. Collection that Stack's sold in April 1962. That collection had business strike examples of every Barber half dollar with the single exception of a proof 1901. However, only one coin in the entire Cox Collection, the 1892-O Micro O that is now traced to the Duckor Collection, was originally plated, making pedigree tracing of all the other coins impossible. Population (6/10): MS66 (4); MS66+ (1); MS67 (1).
Ex: Dr. Thaine B. Price (David Akers, 5/1998), lot 133.
From The Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Duckor Barber Half Dollar Collection.(Registry values: N2998)

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 24LS, PCGS# 6471, GSID# 6556)

Metal: 90% Silver, 10% Copper
Weight: 12.50 grams
ASW: 0.3617oz
Mintage: 1,835,218

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