1873 G$1 Closed 3 MS (PCGS#7574)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 6511
- 等级
- MS63
- 价格
- 20,971
- 详细说明
- 1873 Gold Dollar. Close 3. MS-63 (PCGS).
The predominantly honey-rose finish of this Choice example is accented by faint apricot overtones. The luster is soft and frosty, showing impressive reflectivity throughout the fields. Uniformly bold, but showing a trivial softness at the date that is typical of the issue. A pleasing specimen from a circulation strike mintage for the variety of 1,800 pieces, as noted in the Guide Book. Breen's Encyclopedia(1988) gives the same mintage figure and may be the source of what is certainly an estimated production number. Indeed, Q. David Bowers provides a range of 3,500 to 5,000 struck in his 2011 Guide Book of Gold Dollarsauthored for Whitman. Regardless of the actual quantity minted, the Close 3 variety of this date is considered a rare delicacy among gold dollar specialists, first numismatically published in 1927 (not years later by Harry X Boosel, per conventional wisdom). Perhaps just 120 examples remain in all Mint State grades and the present piece is surely among the finest from this extant population.
Provenance: From the Jerome S. Reznick Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Ruddy's) Robert Marks Collection, Part II sale, November 1972, lot 981. Collector tag with provenance notation included.
PCGS Population: 12; 12 finer in this category (MS-66 finest).
PCGS# 7574. NGC ID: 25DA.
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