1832 Capped Head Left Half Eagle


1832 Capped Head Left Half Eagle

12 Stars

Circulation Mintage: 157,487 For All Types
Obverse Text: 1832 | LIBERTY
Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | E PLURIBUS UNUM | 5 D.

There are five confirmed specimens of this variety, though one of them has not been seen since 1954. Only the specimen last illustrated on the 1931 Newcomer plates could potentially challenge the D. Brent Pogue coin sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries for the title of finest known. It was last sold in Cairo as part of lot 247 of the Palace Collections of Egypt sale, selling to the "House," the auctioneer representing a book bidder. It has not been seen since. It could be in a collection in Egypt or Europe and may someday reappear. The other three include the lightly circulated Granberg-Atwater-Eliasberg-Bass coin, the holed and plugged Stickney-Jenks-Lilly coin in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, and an EF that was discovered in 1977 and last sold in David Akers' sale of June 1998. Among those other specimens whose whereabouts are currently known, only the last is in a privately held collection.

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The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the D. Brent Pogue Part IV Auction, where it realized $822,500.

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