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To celebrate America’s 250th birthday, we’re hiding one of the most significant coins ever across all packs on Courtyard.
The coin? The finest known PCGS-graded 1876-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar. MS66+. Struck the year America turned 100. Currently valued at $13,750.
Starting July 2 at 10:00am PT, it will be live as a Bounty Grail across all Courtyard packs. Every pack. Every category. One coin waiting to be pulled.
How It Works
For a limited time, the 1876-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar can appear in any pack on Courtyard.
If you hit it, it will show up directly in your pack reveal. From there, you can accept an instant buyback offer, keep it vaulted, list it on the marketplace, or have it shipped home.
Why This Coin
The year is the story. In 1876, America celebrated its Centennial. Philadelphia hosted the first World's Fair on U.S. soil. Ten million visitors showed up to see the telephone, the typewriter, and the right arm of the unfinished Statue of Liberty. Now, exactly 150 years later, we're at the 250th. This coin is a direct artifact from the last time the country celebrated on this scale.
It's the finest known PCGS-graded example. The San Francisco Mint struck over 4.5 million of these in 1876. PCGS has graded 548 survivors. This one, at MS66+, is the best of all of them. In a series where anything mint state is already difficult to find, this coin sits alone at the top of the population report.
The toning and originality are unreal. Full rainbow toning across untouched, original mint state surfaces. Blues, purples, golds, greens; all developed naturally over 150 years. No cleaning. No conservation. The surfaces look the way they did when this coin left the San Francisco Mint, plus a century and a half of color that you could stare at for hours. Photos get you close. In hand, it's something else entirely.
PCGS chose it as their Plate Coin. When PCGS needs a single image to represent the entire 1876-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar series in CoinFacts (their encyclopedia used by collectors and dealers worldwide), they use one coin. This coin. This exact specimen. The one you are looking at right now. PCGS looked at every 1876-S Half Dollar ever graded and selected this piece to define the series. We put it in a pack.
This is an heirloom coin. The kind of piece that gets handed down. The finest known PCGS-graded example of a 150-year-old silver half dollar, struck the year America turned 100, pulled from a pack the weekend America turned 250. That story stays in a family.
1876 Meets 2026
When the San Francisco Mint struck this coin, Ulysses S. Grant was president. The nation had 38 states. The Civil War had ended eleven years earlier. America was already staging a world's fair to show what it could build.
150 years later, the finest known PCGS-graded example from that centennial year is waiting inside a Courtyard pack.
For a limited time, it's hiding on Courtyard.
Happy 250th. Good luck.