1861-S $2.50 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle PCGS AU58 - Rare in All Grades!

This piece would be perfect for the U.S. gold enthusiast who wants simply the finest and rarest coins for his or her collection. Specimens such as this belong in the finest collections of U.S. gold. This issue is rare in all grades, and in AU58 is near the top of preservation available today in the 21st century.

The long-lasting durability of the Coronet design on the quarter eagle was unmatched in U.S. numismatic history, until it was passed by the Roosevelt dime. This makes the Liberty quarter eagle the second longest uninterrupted use of a coin motif without a major design alteration. When this issue was first struck in 1840, much of the United States was a rough and ready frontier, with millions of bison roaming the Great Plains. When the final Coronet quarter eagles were minted in 1907, an amazing 67 years later, America was a very different nation than it had been in 1840. The rugged individualism that characterized 19th century America's national spirit remained, but it became a more mature nation, one that made its powerful economic and military presence known around the world.