1866 $1 Motto, CAM PR(PCGS#87014)

The Midwest Summer Sale 2023

拍卖行

Scotsman

批号

493

等级

PR66CAM

价格

181,574

详细说明

7 graded PR-66 CAM, 5 higher at PCGS. Ex-Eliasberg. When the coin was certified at NGC, it had a grade of PR-66 and no special designation, which means PCGS chose to upgrade it to include the "cameo" designation years later. As a relatively famous Seated Liberty silver dollar, this 1866 "with motto" brings with it an excellent provenance: E.S. Norris > J.M. Clapp > Louis E. Eliasberg (1942). In 1997, it was sold as lot 2237 in the Bowers and Merena Eliasberg Collection, Part II sale. That auction catalog has become practically a standard reference for the present cataloger and many collectors, and as far as the images in the 1997 volume can show, the coin looks exactly as it did over twenty-five years ago. The single "star" example shown in NGC's population report may have received special designation due to borderline cameo effects, and this silver dollar, again as designated by PCGS, blatantly possesses lovely contrast as viewed under an incandescent bulb. Fields offer deep reflectivity that will not support UCAM consideration, but which do create mesmerizing effect that attests to minting technology of the 1860s. These decades saw careful mint production of proof coins to the point that no fewer than three die pairs were used to strike all 725 individual proof dollars. As befits a specimen of this caliber, the surface shows practically zero hairlines and occasional breaths of haze as well as some toning -- cyan-purple on the rims fading into tan and salmon-grey toward the fields.