1846 Liberty Seated Half Dime. MS-62 (PCGS). CAC--Gold Label.

1846 Liberty Seated Half Dime. MS-62 (PCGS). CAC--Gold Label.，This rare 1846 half dime is toned a lovely olive-gray over sharply struck, satin to modestly semi-reflective surfaces. It is virtually in the Choice Uncirculated category, and worthy of a strong bid, as such. The 1846 is far and away the rarest Philadelphia Mint Liberty Seated half dime in Mint State. For this series as a whole only the slightly more available 1853-O No Arrows rivals this issue in terms of high grade rarity. The mintage was just 27,000 pieces, and this coin is solidly in the Condition Census. In fact, we are aware of only two other 1846 half dimes of comparable quality to this premium MS-62; these three coins comprising the total Mint State population known to PCGS:<p>1 - <strong>PCGS MS-63.</strong> Ex Heritages Philadelphia Signature Auction of August 2012, lot 5074; Heritages sale of the Eugene H. Gardner Collection, June 2014, lot 30192.<p>2 - <strong>PCGS MS-62. CAC--Gold Label.</strong> Ex S. Hudson Chapman, March 20, 1920; John Work Garrett; The Johns Hopkins University, by gift, 1942; our (Stacks) sale of the John Work Garrett Collection for the Johns Hopkins University, March 1976, lot 105; our (Bowers and Merenas) Stuart C. Levine, M.D. Collection sale, April 1986, lot 2109; Stacks. <em><strong>The present example</strong></em>.<p>3 - <strong>PCGS MS-62. CAC--Gold Label.</strong> Ex Joseph OConnor, January 2004; Heritages sale of the Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part II, October 2014, lot 98189.，From the A.J. Vanderbilt Collection. Earlier ex S. Hudson Chapman, March 20, 1920; John Work Garrett; The Johns Hopkins University, by gift, 1942; our (Stacks) sale of the John Work Garrett Collection for the Johns Hopkins University, March 1976, lot 105; our (Bowers and Merenas) Stuart C. Levine, M.D. Collection sale, April 1986, lot 2109; via Stacks.，