Lot 1636
1880 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 65 Cameo. Mostly untoned with a hint of light golden toning around the edges. An extremely fine-looking Proof-only Trade dollar, a coin with superb mirrors and a wallop from the dies that is amazingly complete. Attractive peripheral toning suggests that the present specimen spent a few years of its time in an old style Wayte Raymond album or similar constraint. 1,987 proofs struck. Pop 15; 13 finer; 7 in 66; 6 in 67. (PCGS # 87060) .
Two popular books were published in 1880: Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace, governor of New Mexico Territory, and Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney, pseudonym for Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop. Both sold over 500,000 copies in the first decade after publication. The one has been memorialized in a Hollywood blockbuster movie; the other so far has been overlooked by the studios.
Estimated Value $5,500 - 6,500.
Ex Dr. Hesselgesser.
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