$5 1807 BUST RIGHT PCGS MS64 ELIASBERG/POGUE

$66,000.00

This coin is from two of the greatest collections ever: Eliasberg/Pogue. The quality is unbeatable! Here is the description from the Pouge sale: Endowed with every imaginable positive aspect, this highly lustrous, beautifully preserved, richly toned near gem is blessed with perhaps the most regal of the American collector pedigrees: Eliasberg. The surfaces betray an unbroken collector provenance many decades old, exhibiting the sort of majestic deep orange toning and freshness of surface that is the unmistakable hallmark of a coin flush with originality. Light hairlines are seen on the obverse, none too troubling in their aesthetic impression, but no heavy marks are noted, just a shallow abrasion midway between the chin and star 11. The reverse is free of any kind of remarkable distraction, though we note a light jogging nick above the arrowheads. The overall visual impact is utterly suburb. The profile shows some light granularity, inherent in the die. The date is recut on the first three digits, most noticeable on the 1 and 0, and some light strike doubling is visible on the letters of the reverse legend, widest on RICA of AMERICA. A thin die crack descends from the motto ribbon beneath B of PLURIBUS to the upper left shield tip, through the soft spot at the wingtip at left, to the arrowheads and on to the lower left serif of N in UNITED. The crack is barely visible above the motto ribbon, where it reaches stars 12 and 7, in order, before dead-ending nearly invisibly into the cloud above stars 1 and 2. The obverse is in its earliest state, still largely reflective, equivalent to Bass-Dannreuther state a. The reverse is in state b, the same state it was in through the BD-5 marriage. All we can add-what a beauty! The colors, the semi -prooflike surfaces, and the sharply struck details make this a very memorable coin. PCGS 9, NGC 9, CAC 3. PCGS has graded only an MS64+ and a MS65+ higher. This coin sold in 09/2015 for $61,688.00. Have not seen anything even remotely similar since.    

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