1857 $1 PR(PCGS#7000)

Spring 2023 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

6603

等级

PR53

价格

16,950

详细说明

1857 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. OC-P1. Rarity-5. Proof-53 (PCGS). Light handling that has imparted mostly light, wispy hairlines and marks has not effaced the Proof qualities of this predominantly brilliant silver dollar. Sharply to fully defined in most areas, including along the upper obverse border, which is almost always quite blunt on circulation strike Liberty Seated dollars of this date. Untoned apart from blushes of reddish-gold and steel-blue at the top of the obverse and through the central reverse. By 1857 the popularity of numismatics in the United States had grown to the point where the Mint was starting to increase its offerings of yearly Proof coinage to collectors, many of which at the time resided in the Northeastern states. The mintages for Proofs struck that year were still not officially recorded, but based on the number of coins estimated to have survived the Philadelphia Mint appears to have produced more than 100 examples of the Liberty Seated dollar in this format. Most of these were distributed as part of the year's silver Proof sets, but others were likely sold individually, such was the popularity of the large size silver dollar. The present offering is for one of the approximately 50 to 75 survivors accounted for in most numismatic references. PCGS# 7000. NGC ID: 252B. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.