1854 3CS MS(PCGS#3670)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

2452

等级

MS66

价格

21,675

详细说明

1854 Silver Three-Cent Piece. MS-66 (PCGS). This richly original premium Gem exhibits warm pearl gray patina on the obverse with iridescent lilac and golden-apricot undertones. The more vividly toned reverse is iridescent golden-apricot with wisps of faint pink and powder blue around the border. Both sides are fully lustrous with a frosty finish that is undisturbed by even the most trivial distractions. Sharply struck and delightful. Although the silver three-cent pieces produced from 1851 to 1853 were composed of 75% silver and 25% copper, a supplement to the Act of February 21, 1853 that Congress passed on March 3 brought the composition of this denomination in line with other subsidiary silver coins and from 1854 to 1873, silver three-cent pieces would be struck in a standard silver alloy of 90% silver, 10% copper. In order to distinguish pieces struck in this revised composition, the Mint revised the design slightly by raising the border of the star and adding two extra lines to further outline this device. This design, known in numismatics as the Type II silver three-cent piece, proved short lived and was replaced with the Type III design in 1859, which dropped one of the two extra outlines around the star. Due at least in part to its brevity, the Type II is the scarcest and most conditionally challenging of the silver three-cent designs. The 1854 has one of the lowest mintages of the type at 671,000 circulation strikes produced. PCGS Population: 16; 7 finer (MS-68 finest). PCGS# 3670. NGC ID: 22Z3. 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.