2017-01-24 Tue

One of the finest known 1915-S Pan-Pac gold $2.50 quarter eagles was sold for $8,812.50 at Heritage’s 2017 Florida United Numismatists convention auction.

The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. It was also a public display of the city’s recovery after a 1906 earthquake. The San Francisco exposition was constructed with temporary materials but the memories stay on commemorative coins.

The 1915-S Panama-Pacific Expo commemorative gold $2.50 quarter eagle features a hippocampus carrying Columbia on the obverse and a sturdy eagle on the reverse. None of these coins among 6,749 pieces has been certified finer than MS-67+ along with a green CAC sticker. The same coin was sold for $14,100 in March 2013.