Half dollar

[Sbc]

One of these four extant coins sold at auction this month for $960,000.
Another coin(Confederate cent) realized $186,000. Who still thinks Confederate money is worthless?

 

[Longhall]

Dang that's enough to pay off all my debts and fund a nice retirement for me.
My confederate $4.00 bill might be worth 2-300.00 by now?

 

[CW Watch & Sword Guy]

One of these four extant coins sold at auction this month for $960,000.
Another coin(Confederate cent) realized $186,000. Who still thinks Confederate money is worthless?

Yep. That's a new record for an 1861-O Seated Liberty half dollar with CSA reverse. Another example, or perhaps even the same one, sold for around $450,000 not long ago. Even the Scott re-strikes typically sell for 4 to 5 figures.

 

[zburkett]

And I thought buttons and buckles were expensive.

 

[UCVRelics]

Only problem with these is I don't think I'll ever dig one but then you never know.

 

[Deleted User CS]

Many years ago I tried to sell some Confederate money to an older female collector I knew from my home town. It was one of many things I inherited from my father's estate. This woman knew my father and mother and would not buy the money. She told me to keep this money with the rest of the collection because I may need it someday when the South rises again. LOL. David.

 

[Sbc]

Yep. That's a new record for an 1861-O Seated Liberty half dollar with CSA reverse. Another example, or perhaps even the same one, sold for around $450,000 not long ago. Even the Scott re-strikes typically sell for 4 to 5 figures.

It is a different specimen; two sold in 2015 for 646k and 881k respectively.

 

[Sbc]

The American Numismatic Association will hold its World's Fair of Money August 14-18 in Philadelphia. The anonymous
owner of two CSA coins has loaned them to be on display at the convention. One is a cent piece dated 1861 minted in Philadelphia under mysterious circumstances. It is insured for $250,000. The coin may have been produced at late as 1874 with dies that remained hidden for over a decade. The other item is a half dollar dated 1861 and allegedly found in circulation in a roll of coins around 1880. It is speculated that the coin may have originally been owned by either President Davis or Secretary Memminger since only four were ever produced. If anyone one in this forum lives locally here is your chance to see a rare piece of history up close. The half dollar is insured for one million dollars.

 

[Larryh86GT]

Nice price for sure.

 

[JOHN42768]

Talk about your inflation

 

[CW Watch & Sword Guy]

Other coins to watch are the 1861-o $20 double eagle gold piece, and the 1861-D [Dahlonega, GA] $1 and $5 half eagle gold, and the 1861-C [Charlotte, NC] $5 half eagle gold [Liberty Head, and Coronet Head] coins. To my knowledge, no exhaustive die variety study has been done any of these coins, as on the 1861-o Seated Liberty half dollars, perhaps because there aren't enough extant examples, or original die varieties for such an exercise to make sense. However, a good many of these coins, and perhaps even most were struck under CSA authority, or perhaps State of LA authority in the case of the 1861-o $20 double eagles. The down side is, I believe they are all high four, or even five figure coins in decent condition.