1876-S NGC AU58 $5 gold half eagle **SUPER RARE** ONLY 23 in ALL grades, PRIMO!

1876-S NGC AU58 $5 gold half eagle **SUPER RARE** ONLY 22 in ALL grades combined.

this is it- one of the rarest affordable issues in the liberty half eagle series and a super piece at that! the photos of this are terrible because they were taken at the bank under poor lighting conditions but it is a very nice coin in hand and looks mint state at first glance, soooooo close to uncirculated and rivaling a couple of the MS61 half eagles in my set. of the original mintage of only 4,000 almost every one of them was used to death in the busy west and the rest were melted or likely traded for goods from the orient. today, with population reports still showing no additions of newly found coins, the experts are forced to accept that this issue is far more rare than previously thought. this beautiful little lady has nice brilliant luster and is a beautiful honey gold in color with great eye appeal for an AU coin and looks uncirculated at first glance, a very short brush with circulation it's only fault. it has plenty of detail and the luster would be more than ample even for a mint state coin. an almost impossible date to find in high grade and almost non-existent in mint state making this one of the finest examples known and available at an affordable price. the Smithsonian specimen is only a VG! a truly great looking piece (please see our feedback) to fill that empty hole in your set. just how rare is it? NGC has graded only 8 in all AU grades combined and they have graded only a mere 22 coins in all straight grades combined in their 30+ years in the grading business, with many of those being re-submissions fishing for a higher grade and profit to the submitters because the value to the next grade up is many thousands of dollars. PCGS has graded only 9 in all AU grades combined in their 30 year history, with no mint state specimens graded. stack these numbers up against any 1916-D dime, gem BU red 1909-S VDB cent or 1893-S Morgan dollar for relative rarity and sheer value. this is a real rarity and the price guides still haven't been updated on these after decades of being rather stagnant, likely because the market is so thin they trade too inoften. David Akers says the average grade for the issue, garnered from auction data, is only VF-25! every other reference I have read backs that up. this is a true numismatic treasure and the numbers show it. many numismatic researchers and scholars agree that if just several new collectors came into the series in a serious way, these would finally realize their true value due to the competition for super rare dates like this one. the NGC online price guide puts the market value of a AU58 at $26,000.00 and PCGS puts it at $25,000.00. this is a spectacular rarity with outstanding eye appeal for an AU and I think it would please even the pickiest collector- I know, I am a very picky collector. with something like 500 or so registry sets of liberty half eagles on the top two TPG sites, this series is growing and gaining ground on the rest of the US series fast and coins like this will soon be locked up in lifetime collections for generations to come. with the only higher graded piece (MS65) unobtainable, this may be the finest known of what is left of the issue, and possibly the last time you see such a choice specimen offered for a decade or two. these have been stored in an environmentally controlled vault.

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