1888 $3, CAM PR(PCGS#88052)
1888 $3, CAM PR (PCGS#88052)
Spring 2022 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 3122
- 等级
- PR64CAM
- 价格
- 114,622
- 详细说明
- Popular 1888 Proof $3 Gold 1888 Three-Dollar Gold Piece. JD-1, the only known dies. Rarity-4-. Proof-64 Cameo (PCGS). CAC. This is an exceptional Choice representative of the quintessential type issue in the challenging Proof three-dollar gold series. Reflective fields support fully impressed, satin-textured devices and display vivid golden-yellow color that enhances the eye appeal. Carefully preserved and impressively smooth, this lovely coin is worthy of the strongest bids. The 1888 has an unknown mintage that it usually listed as 291 pieces. According to Q. David Bowers and Douglas Winter in their 2005 reference on this series: "91 Proofs are verified as part of the total, with 1 coin delivered in February, 55 in March, 33 in May, and 2 in June. In addition, in April, 200 coins were to be delivered to the medal clerk, in charge of Proof coin sales, but were not delivered until July 19, and then for 'exchange,' whatever that meant. It is not certain if all of these were Proof strikings. If they were, the total production figure was 291, which seems slightly generous in view of the number estimated today. Possibly 291 were struck, but not all were sold. Nothing has been found in the literature to indicate an especially large collector demand for Proofs in this particular year." The authors provide for 120 to 150 coins extant, PCGS CoinFacts estimates 150 to 200 survivors, and John W. Dannreuther (2018) offers a range of 110 to 130. The PCGS CoinFacts range, in particular, seems a bit high in our experience and is probably based, at least in part, on resubmissions swelling third-party certification populations. Provenance: From the Huberman Collection. Earlier ex our (Stack's) sale of the Dr. Calvert L. Emmons Collection, September 1969, lot 1058; our (Stack's) Massachusetts Historical Society Collection sale, October 1970, lot 803; Pine Tree Auction Co., Inc.'s Second Annual Walter Breen Gold Coin Auction Sale, June 1975, lot 554. Pine Tree lot tag included. PCGS Population: 8; 20 finer in this category (Proof-66+ Cameo finest). CAC Population: 6; 12. PCGS# 88052. NGC ID: 28AX. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA. Click here to see Coins in Motion.[“Coins]