Lot 1121
1877. NGC graded MS-63 Brown. CAC Approved. Uniform light chocolate color. Popular Key Indian Cent. Housed in an Old Style Holder. A high degree of light brown luster springs to life beneath gentle wood-grain surface highlights. Not exactly razor-sharp but neither are the designs soft at either the obverse or the reverse; we find acceptable detail throughout, more detail than on the typical example of the date. A lively Choice brown example that will please just about any collector of the series, this being the Key Date. Pop 26; 37 finer, 27 in 64, 9 in 65, 1 in 66.
Historic note: "There are no good Indians but dead Indians," exclaimed General Philip Sheridan, who, after Appomattox, was commissioned to "pacify" a wide section of the frontier. In that spirit no small part of the undertaking was realized. "Many, if not most, of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part," laconically remarked President Rutherford B. Hayes in a message to Congress in 1877. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500
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