1813 Capped Head Left Half Eagle. BD-1. Rarity-2. MS-62 (NGC).

1813 Capped Head Left Half Eagle. BD-1. Rarity-2. MS-62 (NGC).，Handsome medium gold surfaces are fully lustrous with a billowy satin texture. Boldly to sharply defined from a well executed strike, this uncommonly smooth MS-62 is particularly well suited for advanced gold type purposes. As a series, the Capped Head Left half eagles of 1813 to 1834 are among the most challenging in all of U.S. numismatics. Most examples in numismatic circles are from the first year, 1813, these coins having been set aside by the contemporary public due to the novelty of the design. Most other issues and varieties are rare, if not noncollectable, since rising gold prices resulted in the wholesale destruction of pre-1834 U.S. gold coins through the mid 1830s. The present example represents the BD-1 die pairing, the more readily obtainable of the two known for this issue. It is identifiable by the reverse die, since both varieties share the same obverse. For BD-1, the first letter S in STATES is over the right side of the letter E in the Latin motto E PLURIBUS UNUM.，，