A duo of similarly graded Philadelphia Mint Seated Liberty half dollars, both in PCGS MS-64+ holders with green Certified Acceptance Corp. stickers, each brought $3,120 at a March 28 session of Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Spring 2024 Showcase Auctions.

An 1856 example featured a bold strike and, “flashy mint luster in a satin to softly frosted finish,” and its price was close to the $3,020 it realized a decade earlier at a Heritage auction.

The 1879 half dollar came from a modest mintage of just 4,800 coins, with an unusually high percentage of nice Mint State survivors. Here, the cataloger wrote, “The lightest champagne-gold peripheral iridescence is all that denies brilliance for this lustrous, frosty near-Gem example.” 

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