1867 G$1 MS(PCGS#7566)

The March 2012 Baltimore Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

4246

等级

MS68

价格

86,946

详细说明

1867 Gold Dollar. MS-68 * (NGC). Deep honey gold with warm&nbsp;frosty orange highlights. The satiny fields and frosted devices form a pleasing, modest cameo contrast, not surprising in a date that saw just 2,600 pieces struck for intended circulation. Struck from&nbsp;heavily clashed dies with an inverted LIBERTY plainly evident below DOLLAR on the reverse; other clash marks on both sides are just as strong. A prolonged examination provides no marks of distinction other than&nbsp; the mentioned clash marks. An impressive gold dollar, essentially as fine as you will find in a NGC holder, and worthy of premium bidding activity&nbsp;from gold dollar specialists and from those who simply appreciate the very finest U.S. gold coins.<br /> <br /> <strong>Numismatic Reflections by Q. David Bowers</strong><br /> Gold dollars are a very interesting specialty, and I recall that in the 1950s it was not particularly unusual to see a full set of dates and mints from 1849 to 1889. Not much attention was paid to grade, and typically such a presentation would be a mixture of Mint State coins of various degrees for the Philadelphia issues, and circulated grades for the branch mints. Attention to quality began to be paid in the 1960s, and then in 1975 David W. Akers set the pace with his excellent book detailing gold dollars date by date, mint by mint, and giving auction records. This showcased the reality that certain varieties were very hard to find in higher levels. Still, this was in an era before certification, and back in 1975 not many collectors of gold dollars assigned numbers to them. This developed in the next decade, and hit its stride in 1986 with the formation of PCGS by David Hall and others. <br /> The grading of gold dollars and other pieces by numbers increased in popularity, and today in 2012 we have much information that was not available to earlier generations. We now know that the present MS-68 is indeed very special, something that might not have been notice