1858-C $2.50 MS(PCGS#7787)

Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

5077

Grade

MS61

Price

12,200

Lot Description

Superior quality and eye appeal for this low mintage, heavily circulated pre-Civil War era Southern gold issue. This piece, of course, escaped extensive commercial use and has come down to the present day with softly frosted luster. Striking detail is also impressive, the obverse near-fully defined and the reverse with only minimal softness along the junction of the eagle's plumage and shield. Pale pinkish-silver highlights enliven a base of honey-wheat color. Only 9,056 quarter eagles were produced at the Charlotte Mint in 1858, with today's typical survivor most apt to be VF or marginally finer. While we have been unusually fortunate to offer a few About Uncirculated coins in recent years, we have to go back to 2015 in our archives to find two appearances of Mint State examples. Clearly this is a fleeting opportunity that deserves the utmost in bidder attention.