1875 G$1 MS(PCGS#7576)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

3213

等级

MS64+

价格

239,928

详细说明

A landmark rarity from the Type III gold dollar series, this is the first Mint State 1875 that we have had the privilege of bringing to auction in 15 years. It is a beautiful near-Gem with rich, vivid reddish-orange color on highly lustrous surfaces. The fields are reflective and contrast sharply struck, satiny design elements; a boldly cameoed finish is appreciable when the coin is admired under direct lighting angles - very attractive. A bit of silvery tinting on the reverse and one or two infinitesimal obverse hairlines are all that stand between this lovely coin and a full Gem Uncirculated grade.<p>With the exception of the double eagle denomination, the gold coin production at the Philadelphia Mint in 1875 can only be described as minuscule at best. 400 gold dollars, 400 quarter eagles, 200 half eagles, and 100 eagles were struck for circulation while the three-dollar gold piece was only made in Proof format. For the gold dollar, the days when it served a useful purpose in commerce had long since passed, and many of the 400 circulation strikes delivered in 1875 were either set aside by, if not outright intended for, numismatists. The result is an unusually generous (for the era) surviving population of 10% to 20%, or 40 to 80 coins, as estimated by Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth in their 2008 <em>Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins: 1795-1933</em>. Q. David Bowers provides an even more generous total of 70 to 100 extant in all grades in his <em>Guide Book of Gold Dollars</em> (2011 edition), 40 to 60 of which are Mint State. These are, of course, limited totals in an absolute sense, and they are extremely limited when scaled against demand for classic U.S. Mint gold coins from today's advanced collectors. Given how infrequently high grade Mint State examples appear on the market, our offering of this exceptional coin in PCGS/CAC MS-64+will be hotly pursued.