1915 50C PR68 Cameo NGC

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Pricing & History
1915 50C PR68 Cameo NGC. Twenty-five years after the design competition that established Charles Barber's Neoclassical design for the dime, quarter, and half dollar, a new competition ushered in a radically different design for the half dollar. Thus, the 1915 half dollar is the last of its kind. The mintage was notably small with only 450 proofs struck. Business strikes also had a low output with only 138,450 pieces produced. Breen (1988) makes an interesting observation about the 1915, one that reflects on the way collectors of that era still did not differentiate between proofs and business strikes and their relative rarity: "Most collectors were content to save proofs of 1913-15, so that most Unc. business strikes perished." The combined population numbers from both services show that no PR68 Cameo coins have been certified by PCGS and only one other piece has been so graded by NGC (a Star coin). Struck in the semibrilliant finish common to most post-1903 proofs, an incredibly low number of Cameo coins are known from these later dates compared to the proofs produced in the 1890s. This is essentially a perfect proof, as one might imagine from the grade. There are no contact marks evident on either side. The fields display unfathomable depth of mirrored reflectivity and the devices show a significant amount of mint frost, the combination read more
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