1854 $1, DCAM PR (PCGS#96997)
The June 2011 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4066
- 等级
- PR64
- 价格
- 141,567
- 详细说明
- 1854 Seated Liberty Silver Dollar. Proof-64 Ultra Cameo (NGC). As a group, early proof Seated dollars dated 1840 to 1857 are very scarce to rare coins that have long been reserved for inclusion in the finest numismatic cabinets. All of these issues have unknown, limited mintages, most were produced from only a few die marriages (some dates even share the same reverse die) and all were struck for official presentation purposes or distribution to a small number of contemporary collectors living in the Northeast United States. While issues such as the 1856 and 1857 point in this direction with their (presumably) slightly higher mintages, only in 1858 did the Mint make a concerted effort to strike proof silver dollars in larger numbers and distribute them more widely to the growing numismatic community of the late 1850s United States.<br /> The 1854 is a median rarity in an absolute sense among proof silver dollars from the 1850s, with survivors not as rare as those of the 1850-1853 issues but rarer (if not much rarer) than those of the 1856-1859 deliveries. This cataloger (Jeff Ambio) has identified two die marriages for this issue, both of which share the same obverse identifiable by what is either a die defect or misplaced date in the field between the digits 54 in the date and the base of the rock. The reverse used to strike the present example is most readily identifiable by a series of die rust lumps (as made) within the feathers near the tip of the eagle's left (facing) wing. This reverse was also used to strike proof Seated dollars of other dates, specifically certain restrikes of the 1851 and 1852 issues, as well as some proof 1859 Seated dollars.<br /> In addition to absolute rarity, this beautiful near-Gem is also significant as a strike rarity. Both sides exhibit profound field to device contrast that is more sharply delineated than that evidenced by any other early proof Seated dollar with which this
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