Lot 1833
1895 Morgan Dollar. NGC graded Proof 64. Old Holder. Nice cameo effect. A splendid specimen combining light golden amber, blue and pruple iridescence in the outer circle of stars and legends outlining a center of brightness. Of all Morgan silver dollar dates and major varieties, the 1895 has far and away the lowest mintage. Just 880 Proofs were struck, plus, it seems, no circulation strikes at all. For quite a few years a mintage figure of 12,000 had appeared in print, but Henry T. Hettger and the present writer Q. David Bowers writing in his massive silver dollar encyclopedia effectively eliminated that concept a few years back, based upon Hettger's research in the National Archives. Indeed, although the information was lost to a later generation of numismatists, we were able to find scattered references soon after the 1895 was minted that only Proofs were struck (PCGS # 7330) .
Estimated Value $35,000 - 40,000.
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| Realized $47,725 |
