Lot 1416
1872 $3 Gold. NGC graded MS-62 Prooflike. Beautiful prooflike surfaces. Clearly superior to the vast majority of heavily abraded About Uncirculated to low-end Uncirculated pieces, this choice reddish-golden example has only a few well scattered hairlines and benefits from the high production standards employed by the Mint during the decade of the 1870s. Excellent detail with perhaps minor weakness to the feather puffs and, as always on $3 business strikes, softness on the ribbon bow on the reverse. A scarce low mintage date. Only 2,000 struck. Pop 3; 1 finer in 63.
Estimated Value $6,000 - 6,500.
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