1876-CC $5 Liberty Head Half Eagle PCGS F15 (CAC)

Lowest mintage of all Carson City Mint $5 Eagles!

This issue, the 1876-CC, has the lowest mintage of any CC mint $5 half eagle. All gold coins from the CC mint are popular and greatly desired. This issue is rare in each and every grade. Out of its tiny mintage of 6,887, there are 8 in F15 with 81 finer. In CAC, there are 3 in F15 with 15 finer.

Carson City $5 gold pieces are very popular with numismatists. Unlike the $10 Eagle and $20 Double Eagles, collectors can complete this series with no six-figure specimens to hunt after, for there are enough collector grade CC Half Eagles to satisfy differing gold coin budgets.  Gold specialist Doug Winter writes, "Half eagles, as a rule, have become a much more collected denomination in the last few years. For many collectors, gold dollars and quarter eagles are too small, three dollar gold pieces are too weird, and eagles/double eagles have gotten really expensive. That leaves half eagles as a sweet spot for a number of new (and existing) collectors."

Original sketch of Liberty by Christian Gobrecht, who crafted the Liberty head design on the $5 half eagle. Image: National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, via Wikimedia Commons.