Stack’s Bowers Galleries never fails to offer an impressive variety of coins, paper money and exonumia at the official auctions of the Whitman Baltimore Expo, and their most recent Rarities Night was no exception.
Coin Update News offered a wonderful preview of the auction here.
The first coin we will consider is a 1853 Braided Hair large cent, graded MS-66RD by PCGS and stickered by CAC. During the Rarities Night sale, it will be offered as lot 13017. Considered to be one of the finest coins of this type in existence, it is hard to imagine how a piece like this survived in such remarkable condition. As most people know, it is not all that easy to find a bright red cent in circulation that was minted just last year, so the survival of a coin from the middle of the 19th century with full red surfaces is nothing short of a miracle.
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