Lot 1713
1861 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63 PQ. An intensely frosty and white specimen with only the faintest champagne toning at 12:00 on the obverse and 6:00 on the reverse. Wonderful satiny luster is found on both obverse and reverse with the luster complete over the fields and devices. For identification, there is a small tick mark at the bottom of the letter Y in LIBERTY. A short and shallow scratch exists in the right field to the left of stars 11 & 12. All of the obverse stars are sharp and there is evidence of light die polish lines below Liberty. The second 1 in the date is lower than the other 3 digits. All of the business strike Seated Liberty dollars from the Civil War Era are extremely rare in the higher uncirculated grades and very tough to locate even in nice AU condition. In 1861, 77,500 were struck and while the this issue is not quite as rare as the 1863, 1864 and 1865, uncirculated examples are tough and a near-gem example such as this is near Condition Census. PCGS has graded 15 in MS-63, 21 in MS-64 and 5 in MS-65. Housed in an old PCGS green label holder (PCGS # 6951) .
Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,000.
The Michael M. Magdic Collection.
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