1909-O Barber Half Dollar. MS-66+ (PCGS). CAC. CMQ.

Offering exceptional quality and eye appeal for a New Orleans Mint Barber half dollar, this coin displays universally sharp striking detail and full mint luster. The surfaces border on pristine and are dressed in a bold array of vivid multicolored iridescence that includes shades of powder blue, olive-gray, antique-gold and reddish-rose. With this year the curtain rings down on New Orleans Mint coinage. The facility was used as a storage depot for many years afterward, then shuttered. Its final contribution to the half dollar series amounted to a mintage of 925,400 pieces and the limited mintage explains why the 1909-O is challenging to locate in the finer circulated grades. In Mint State it numbers among the scarcer late date issues of its type. One would be hard pressed to find a more appealing example than the high Condition Census Gem offered here.

PCGS# 6517. NGC ID: 24N9.