1873 1C Closed 3, RB MS (PCGS#2110)
May 2019 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 50
- 等级
- MS66RB
- 价格
- 18,241
- 详细说明
- 1873 Indian Cent. Close 3. MS-66 RB (PCGS). CAC.
This is a lovely Gem with appreciable medium orange color remaining on both sides. Otherwise toned in warm gray-brown patina, this impressive cent is boldly struck and carefully preserved. The mintage of 11,676,500 pieces for the circulation strike 1873 is divided between Close 3 and Open 3 examples. The former were struck from dies prepared before Chief Coiner Archibald Lowden Snowden's letter of January 18, 1873, to Mint Director Henry R. Linderman in which the chief coiner asserted that the close 3 date logotype was easily mistaken for 1878. Although no official record exists on the exact number of each variety produced, the 1873 Close 3 is scarcer and has an estimated mintage of 2,500,000 pieces (per Q. David Bowers, 2006 and Rick Snow, 2014). Gems such as this are in the distinct minority among survivors and represent a significant find whenever an example is offered.
PCGS Population: 5; 0 finer in this category.
PCGS# 2110. NGC ID: 227X.
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