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LOT 4210
United States of America AR Seated Liberty Half Dollar or 50 Cents. Dated 1854. New Orleans mint.
Designs by Christian Gobrecht. Thirteen stars around Liberty seated to right, head to left, holding stick with cap and resting her right arm on shield inscribed LIBERTY; date below / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, eagle facing, wings spread, head to left, holding branch and arrows; mintmark and denomination below. KM 82. Near Extremely Fine.(12.35gr, 30mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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LOT 4210
United States of America AR Seated Liberty Half Dollar or 50 Cents.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
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