1843-O LIBERTY HEAD $10 MS60

SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. LOVELY EARLY MINTED NEW ORLEANS EAGLE. After the 1847-O, the 1843-O is the most frequently encountered New Orleans Mint Eagle from the 1840s. High-grade survivors from an original mintage of 175,162 pieces, however, are rarer than those of such later-date issues as the 1851-O, 1853-O, 1858-O and 1860-O. We stress that "high grade" for this issue begins in AU-50, at which level the 1843-O is very scarce. Only a small number of Mint State coins are known, the finest of which is an NGC MS-64 (September/2007).