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Images courtesy of Heritage
Numismatic Auctions
Significant examples:
Proof (illustrated above). Purchased at the Mint on February 7, 1884
by T. H. Garrett - J.W. Garrett March 1976, Lot 484 at $3,000 - Paramount's
session of Auction '79, Lot 319 at $8,000.00 - Trompeter collection.
NGC PCGS Proof-64. Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach" Sale, June
5-7, 2000, Lot 2232 at $20,700.00 "to the book"
Recent appearances:
PCGS Proof-65. Ex - Bowers and
Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV
Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 548, illustrated, not sold From Stack's sale of
May 1974, Lot 457
PCGS MS-63. Ex - Heritage
Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "Philadelphia 2000 Signature Sale",
August 6-7, 2000, Lot 7270, illustrated, not sold
PCGS MS-63. Ex- Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "October
2000 Long Beach Sale" October 5-7, 2000, Lot 7616, illustrated, not
sold
MS-61. Ex - Bowers and Merena Galleries' Robert W. Schwan Collection
Sale, October 26-27, 2000, Lot 2368 Not Sold
Notes:
"Only 48 made, from a single
pair of dies made January 3: 30 with sets January 19, 8 on February 29, 8
on June 28, 1 each in September and December. Probably fewer than a dozen
survive.
Auction records are few; their prices realized reflect lack of
appreciation of the extreme rarity of this date, especially compared to
other dates 1880-1907. Recent auction records comprise only six coins: (1)
our 3/2000:896, PCGS Proof 64 #6585849; (2) N. M. Kaufman:848, $2,750 (rim
nicks); (3) Clapp, Eliasberg:563, $8,250; (4) RARCOA's session of Auction
'88:1921, $9,900; (5) Superior Stamp & Coin Co., Inc.'s session of
Auction '89:899, $9,900; (6) Ex Mint, 2/7/1884, T. H. Garrett, J.W.
Garrett 3/76:484, $3,000, Paramount's session of Auction '79:319, $8,000,
now in Trompeter set (NGC Proof 64); (7) Bowers 11/95:2082, PCGS Proof 63;
(8) Stack's 5/98:161, "Very Choice"; (9) Bowers 8/99:748, PCGS
Proof 64."
The finest Uncirculated example graded by PCGS is a single MS-66.
The finest Proof examples graded by PCGS are 2 PR-65's.
The finest Deep Cameo Proof
examples graded by PCGS are 2 PRDC-64's.
- from
the description of Lot 2232 in Superior
Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach" Sale, June
5-7, 2000
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial
Coins" by Walter Breen
"The PCGS Population Report, July 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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