Rare 1822 gold coin fetches
record $8.4M at auction in Vegas
Posted By: Hazymac, 3/30/2021 9:48:20 AM
The coin trading world has a new gold standard, after the only known 1822 half eagle $5 piece in private hands sold at auction in Las Vegas for US$8.4 million ($10.9m). Douglas Mudd, curator and director of the Edward C. Rochette Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, confirmed the coin is one of three of its kind in existence and the auction price Thursday was the highest for a US gold coin struck by the US Mint. The most expensive US coin ever sold, at US$10m ($13m), is a 1794 US “Flowing Hair” silver dollar said to be among the first-ever minted in the fledgling United States. The 1822 half eagle $5 coin
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The coin trading world has a new gold standard, after the only known 1822 half eagle $5 piece in private hands sold at auction in Las Vegas for US$8.4 million ($10.9m).
Douglas Mudd, curator and director of the Edward C. Rochette Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, confirmed the coin is one of three of its kind in existence and the auction price Thursday was the highest for a US gold coin struck by the US Mint.
The most expensive US coin ever sold, at US$10m ($13m), is a 1794 US “Flowing Hair” silver dollar said to be among the first-ever minted in the fledgling United States.
The 1822 half eagle $5 coin
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Only three examples of the legendary 1822 half eagle (Capped Bust Facing Left) are known to exist from a mintage of 17,796, and two of those are in the Smithsonian. The unidentified buyer is the fourth owner of the coin in 115 years. Capped Bust Left Half Eagle and the very similar Capped Bust Left quarter eagle are my favorite American type coins.