1849 25C PR65+ PCGS. Briggs 4-C....

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1849 Seated Quarter, PR65+
Only Five PCGS Proofs Certified

1849 25C PR65+ PCGS. Briggs 4-C. Our roster of proof 1849 Seated Liberty quarters includes six examples that grade PR63 to PR66. PCGS has graded five pieces including two in PR66 and one each in PR65+, PR65, and PR63. NGC submissions include three coins grades PR66, PR64, and PR63 (10/19). PCGS Coin Facts estimates that just three to five proofs are known. Our own roster, published when we offered the Eugene H. Gardner Collection, enumerated five distinctively different examples. Rich ocean-blue toning dominates this fully struck specimen, although the borders display narrow bands of peach and straw-gold. We know of six examples that grade PR66 to PR63. Just two are marginally finer than the present Gem proof. Detailed Census information has appeared in several past Heritage catalogs, with an abbreviated Census presented here:

1. PR66 PCGS. Eugene Gardner Collection (Heritage, 5/2015), lot 98376.
2. PR66 PCGS. Eliasberg Collection (Bowers and Merena, 4/1997), lot 1445.
3. PR65+ PCGS. From a numismatic holding formed in the 1950s; Long Beach Expo (Heritage, 6/2015), lot 3915. The present piece.
4. PR65 PCGS. Garrett Collection (Stack's, 3/1976), lot 160.
5. PR64. Thomas Elder; Albert Holden; Norweb Collection (Bowers and Merena, 3/1988), lot 1585.
6. PR63 PCGS. FUN Signature (Heritage, 1/1998), lot 6781.(Registry values: P4)

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 23WC, PCGS# 5543, Greysheet# 5257)

Weight: 6.68 grams

Metal: 90% Silver, 10% Copper

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