Quarter-Eagle, 1863, a tiny area of dirt on the reverse rim at three o'clock, otherwise very choice Proof overall, highly lustrous, frosty devices and deep mirror fields, one of just thirty Proofs of the date struck at the height of the Civil War, with no attendant business strikes, Breen (Encyclopedia, 6263) wrote, "all coined March 23, from one pair of dies", Akers (Volume II, page 132), "one of the rarest and most desireable of all Quarter-Eagles", perhaps just ten to fifteen specimens are known today | Christie's

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PROOF-ONLY 1863 QUARTER-EAGLE THIRTY PIECES STRUCK

Quarter-Eagle, 1863, a tiny area of dirt on the reverse rim at three o'clock, otherwise very choice Proof overall, highly lustrous, frosty devices and deep mirror fields, one of just thirty Proofs of the date struck at the height of the Civil War, with no attendant business strikes, Breen (Encyclopedia, 6263) wrote, "all coined March 23, from one pair of dies", Akers (Volume II, page 132), "one of the rarest and most desireable of all Quarter-Eagles", perhaps just ten to fifteen specimens are known today

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Quarter-Eagle, 1863, a tiny area of dirt on the reverse rim at three o'clock, otherwise very choice Proof overall, highly lustrous, frosty devices and deep mirror fields, one of just thirty Proofs of the date struck at the height of the Civil War, with no attendant business strikes, Breen (Encyclopedia, 6263) wrote, "all coined March 23, from one pair of dies", Akers (Volume II, page 132), "one of the rarest and most desireable of all Quarter-Eagles", perhaps just ten to fifteen specimens are known today