RARE 1859 PROOF QUARTER-EAGLE
Quarter-Eagle, 1859, type II reverse, arrowheads small and far from CA of AMERICA, some tiny handling marks and hairlines, Proof with a pleasing cameo effect, just eighty Proofs of the date are thought to have been struck, many of which were later melted as unsold, Breen (Encyclopedia, 6245), makes no mention of Type II reverse Proofs, Akers (Volume II, page 120) noted, "a small number of Proofs, probably less than ten are known"
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Quarter-Eagle, 1859, type II reverse, arrowheads small and far from CA of AMERICA, some tiny handling marks and hairlines, Proof with a pleasing cameo effect, just eighty Proofs of the date are thought to have been struck, many of which were later melted as unsold, Breen (Encyclopedia, 6245), makes no mention of Type II reverse Proofs, Akers (Volume II, page 120) noted, "a small number of Proofs, probably less than ten are known"