1929-S 5C MS(PCGS#3968)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

競売業者

Stack's Bowers

ロット番号

2252

グレード

MS67

価格

4,320

ロット詳細

Exceptionally smooth satin surfaces border on pristine. Sharply struck and further enhanced by lovely toning in iridescent powder blue, salmon-pink and reddish-gold, it is difficult for us to imagine a more desirable example of this issue. The most readily obtainable San Francisco Mint nickel from the Roaring Twenties, the onset of the Great Depression prevented many examples of the 1929-S from seeing immediate distribution. Instead, thousands of coins remained in Treasury Department vaults, from which they could be obtained by collectors by direct order through 1932. After that year examples saw more widespread release, although many were quickly snatched up by contemporary numismatists before reaching general circulation. Thanks to this chain of events the 1929-S is plentiful in Mint State, although we caution bidders that few survivors as are well preserved and visually appealing as the coin offered here.