Lot 1738
1879 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 68 Cameo Star. Wonderful rainbow toning on both sides. One of the finest trade dollars we have ever handled in over 50 years in the business. Frosty motifs and heavily mirrored fields form a delightful and bold cameo contrast, which is awarded by a notation as such on the NGC holder. One of 1,541 Proofs produced in this, the second Philadelphia mint date of the trade dollar series that saw no branch mint coinage; only Proof trade dollars would be forthcoming from 1879 until the demise of the series in 1883 (or 1885, depending on just how much of a stickler you are where official versus "unofficial" Trade dollars are concerned). Ever so mightily struck by the specially prepared Proof dies, and because of this aesthetically appealing to a fair-thee-well, a coin whose purity, whose beauty is at once captivating as well as definitive of the assigned grade. Pop 3; None higher.
Estimated Value $45,000 - 55,000.
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