1796 H10C LM-1, Likerty N1 Certification #47005146, PCGS #38596
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Ron Guth
The LM-1 variety of the 1796 Half Dime is known as the LIKERTY variety because of a broken "B" punch in LIBERTY. This is a scarce variety primarily because of the low mintage for the year. Despite its scarcity, more than a dozen examples are known in Mint State. The finest example known to us is the remarkable PCGS MS67+ (illustrated above), formerly in the D. Brent Pogue Collection. When that coin sold in 2015, the price of $412,500 was more than double the previous record for the variety -- set by this very same coin.
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#1 MS67+ PCGS grade
Texas Collection - Christies 5/1989:98, $198,000 - Knoxville Collection - Jay Parrino (The Mint) - D. Brent Pogue Collection - Stack’s/Bowers/Sotheby’s 5/2015:1005, $411,250 |
#2 MS65 PCGS grade
R.L. Miles Collection - Stack’s 5/1969:390, $2,700 - Lelan Rogers Collection, sold privately in 7/1995 - Foxfire Collection (Claude E. Davis, MD), sold privately on 10/5/2004 - D. Brent Pogue Colllection - Stack’s/Bowers & Sotheby’s 5/2015:1006, $94,000 |
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#2 MS65 estimated grade
New Netherlands, sold privately in 3/1947 - Harold Bareford Collection - Stack’s 10/1981:29, $28,000 - John Whitney Walter Collection - Stack's 5/1999:1759, $32,200 |
| #3 MS64 PCGS grade |
| #3 MS64 PCGS grade |