Lot 1269
1877 $3 Gold. Sharpness of AU-50 but cleaned. The obverse has been cleaned with a cloth and now displays myriad hairlines that give the coin a satiny appearance. On the reverse, more of the original prooflike surface remains, and it appears to have suffered just normal circulation marks. Only 1,468 were struck for general circulation, as the coining department finally had to wake up after a couple of pretty sorry years of $3 gold production. Seldom offered in any grade, in fact this is the lowest population coin in the regular $3 series according to the PCGS Population Report with only 35 graded in all. Perhaps rarer than we know.
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| Realized $2,875 |
