Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 34

Pre-Long Beach Coin and Currency Auction

Gobrecht Dollars

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1701		1836. Designer's name on base. Pattern. Judd 60 Medallic Turn. PCGS graded Proof 45. Original-medal turn. Toned on both sides with mottled shades of russet gold and dullish gray, including some gray patches on the legs and in the field by Liberty's foot. Popular grade for type collectors. Minted in March of 1837. The head of Liberty is nearly opposite the second S in STATES with the eagle flying onward and upward after a medallic-turn (rotation around the coin's vertical axis) -- Walter Breen's definition of Die Alignment II. Most examples of Judd-60 are from Die Alignment I, which has a coin turn. This is a very scarce example of the second die alignment, which has a medallic turn. The eagle flies upward with respect to the horizontal axis on both of these die alignments, while the eagle flies horizontally on the final two alignments. An even 1,000 Gobrecht dollars were produced in December 1836; however, the mintage was divided into two parts. The first consisted of 400 coins that were retained at the U.S. Mint for distributions and for direct sale to the public. All 400 of these first coins should have no reverse die scratch. An additional 600 coins were then struck later in the same month of December, and were then sent to a local bank for general distribution (near Christmas time). It appears that the reverse die was inadvertently scratched at the start of the second striking. Therefore, all 600 of these second coins (struck in 1836) should have the reverse die scratch. The 1837 mintage (but still dated 1836) consisted of another 600 coins. All of the March 1837 coins were deposited into circulation. Estimated Value $10,000 - 14,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1702		1839 Gobrecht Dollar. Designer's name omitted. Circulation issue. SEGS graded AU-53. Eagle flying in a plain field. Alignment #IV. Some minor scattered marks and nicks and a tiny mint caused depression below the eagle. Nicely toned deepening about the borders. Only 300 struck. If you were expecting the design left by the dies to be quite detailed in robustness, take heart, since this is an exceptional 1839 Gobrecht in terms of strike, and not the usual run-of-the-mill softer impression. It is, indeed, very bold. Gobrecht's soaring eagle, which in this instance flies within a plain not starry field, is the height of beauty and grace. Were it only in the scheme of things for the Congress to resurrect this design on, say, one of our silver or gold bullion coins, the eagle could soar once more! A very prestigious offering which, due to the modest grade, won't require a remorgtage on the house to bid on it! Estimated Value $19,000 - 21,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1703		1843 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63. Mostly untoned with semi reflective surfaces. Pop 10; 4 in 64; none finer in mint state at PCGS. (PCGS # 6929) . Estimated Value $4,000 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1704		1843 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63. Nice white coin with semi reflective surfaces. The strike is average at some stars and the lower rim denticles which did not strike fully, but the overall choiceness and satiny luster are a joy to behold. Pop 10; 4 in 64 as best at PCGS. (PCGS # 6929) . Estimated Value $4,000 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $5,405
Lot 1705		1843. NGC graded MS-61. Beautiful dusky gray-gold and blue toning. Well struck for the issue with typical light surface abrasions. Pop 17; 27 finer at NGC. (PCGS # 6929) . Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,600. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,680
Lot 1706		1845 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded AU-58. Light greyish toning. A deep nick on the arm of Liberty but still lustrous. Only 24,500 minted. Pop 29; 14 finer. (PCGS # 6931) . Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1707		1846 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-62. Rich shades of golden toning with a few scattered contact marks hidden by the toning. Frosty, with a very nice strike. Pop 15; 28 finer by PCGS. (PCGS # 6932) . Estimated Value $2,300 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,760
Lot 1708		1846. NGC graded AU-58. Light toning on both sides with bountiful luster around the stars and legends, within the two main devices, and snaking out partway into the fields. An appealing specimen for the type set buyer who requires this No Motto Type (PCGS # 6932) . Estimated Value $800 - 900. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1709		1846-O Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63. Light even grey toning with semi reflective surfaces and frosty devices. Nice bold strike. Only 59,000 coins minted, making the 1846-O a popular collector item. It is the first of only 4 dates in the series struck at America's southernmost Mint of New Orleans. Very Low Pop 4; 1 in 64 as best at PCGS. (PCGS # 6933) . Estimated Value $12,000 - 13,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $18,400
Lot 1710		1850 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 62. Mostly untoned with a hint of light gold tone. As the Nineteenth Century reached its midpoint, about 20 silver dollars were coined in Proof. Breen notes that two obverse dies were used to coin them, this piece has the repunched base of the 0 in the date (Breen-3), but does not have the die crack through the base of the date. It also has several tiny handling ticks on both sides, and minor hairlines, accounting for the grade. The coin is generally untoned save for a thin band of album toning around the raised rim of the obverse and reverse. PGCS has graded 1 coin as such, with 7 graded higher (all PR-64) some of which may be attempts at upgrades, but we don't know for sure. Pop 1; 1 in 63; 5 in 64; only 7 graded in total (PCGS # 6991) . Estimated Value $15,000 - 17,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1711		1853 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-64. Frsoty coin and well struck and a valuable coin in this grade. The surface is particularly attractive here, and the smooth-flowing luster is barely touched by bagmarks or abrasions. As in all 1853 seated Liberty dollars, Miss Liberty is sporting a goatee, courtesy of some light die clashing from the reverse design! 46,110 minted. Pop 7; 1 in 65; 1 in 66. (PCGS # 6941) . Estimated Value $9,000 - 10,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1712		1853. NGC graded AU-58. Untoned. Scarce Date. The 1853 issue is noted for the unusual location of die clash marks directly below Liberty's chin. Seen on all business strikes, it appears as though Liberty is wearing a beard! Lustrous and quite choice. Pop 17; 65 finer. (PCGS # 6941) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1713		1856 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 61. Old green holder. Pop 1; 21 finer. A few faint slide marks on the leg; otherwise distraction-free, there is a tiny obverse tone spot near the base of the cap pole. This feature should help trace the pedigree of this enjoyable Proof rarity. We believe that the original mintage of the Proof 1856 Seated Dollar lies between 60-125 pieces. Of this total, no more than 40 coins are believed extant. Nice white cameo example (PCGS # 6999) . Estimated Value $7,000 - 8,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $9,200
Lot 1714		1858 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded Proof 64. Well struck with light rainbow toning on both sides. A proof only year with approximately. 300 struck for the issue. As the sole Proof-only issue in the series, the 1858 seated dollar is an immensely popular and immediately recognizable coin among specialists. It is also a rare coin, although we do not know exactly how many were struck due to lack of record keeping at the Mint in those days. Estimates have ranged from as low as 80 coins to as high as 600 coins. The combined NGC and PCGS population data, which lists well over 100 coins in all grades, several examples of which are impaired. Of course, some of these may be resubmissions of the same specimens. This is an aesthetically pleasing near-Gem with splendid surfaces and delicate iridescence that seems that deepens toward the borders. The uniformly reflective fields are nicely distraction-free for the Proof 64 grade of preservation. The Mint used only one obverse die to produce this issue. Two reverse dies are known, one of which was used to produce some Proof 1856 and 1857 Seated Dollars. Pop 9; 4 in 65; 5 in 66. (PCGS # 7001) . Estimated Value $13,000 - 15,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $16,100
Lot 1715		1859 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded MS-64. Nice white example with some light marks on both arms but otherwise exceptionally clean and choice. The 1859 issue is much scacer than the hoard-related 1859-O pieces and shouldn't be lumped together with its New Orleans counterpart since this Philadelphia Mint strike is very scarce to rare in high grade (as the census reveals). Pop 15; none finer at NGC (PCGS # 6946) . Estimated Value $10,000 - 11,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1716		1860 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 64. Nicely toned in shades of russet and steel iridescence. This is a very attractive mirror-reflective Proof of the early period. The mint reported 1,330 minted in Proof, but it has now been verified through archival research, that many, perhaps most were melted afterwards as unsold, leaving a much smaller net coinage in collectors' hands This is confirmed in the relatively low grading census. Pop 43; 1 in 65; 6 in 66. (PCGS # 7003) . Estimated Value $4,500 - 5,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $4,830
Lot 1717		1860-O Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded MS-63. Frosty white coin with numerous light bagmarks that are associated with this hoard coin. Records are contradictory but it is believed anywhere from half a bag to one or two bags of the 1860-O and 1859-O silver dollars were released by the Treasury department in the 1950s and 1960s, which would put the population of these around a thousand or more. However, many in the group, in fact most, were scruffy, heavily bagmarked pieces, though almost always with nice white frost like this coin sports. Pop 39; 35 finer. (PCGS # 6950) . Estimated Value $2,700 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,990
Lot 1718		1862. NGC graded Proof 55. Some light hairlines on both sides. Lightly toned, with complete residual sharpness from the extra sharp strike imparted by the Proof dies. Only 550 Proofs were minted in 1862 (PCGS # 7005) . Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,300. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,380
Lot 1719		1863 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 64. Attractive delicate antique violet toning and very few hairlines for the grade. A very pleasing example of this scarce Civil War issue, a toned No Motto example. The mirror reflectivity is especially revealing on razor-sharp example. Pop 34 with 11 better. (PCGS # 7006) . Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $6,613
Lot 1720		1864 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded Proof 64. Lightly toned. With the possible exception of restrikes (the existence of which has yet to be established for this issue), all Proof 1864 Silver Dollars were disseminated via the year's Proof sets. Archival records show that only 470 were delivered, a total that seems on the low side given the current graded population of this issue. Among the survivors, this near-Gem grade level of Proof 64 is typically the highest that collectors can hope to acquire. A rare opportunity, then, this lovely Proof 64 silver dollar which is overlaid in delicate copper-gold iridescence that assumes a slightly speckled distribution toward the obverse border (PCGS # 7007) . Estimated Value $5,000 - 5,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $4,715
Lot 1721		1865 Liberty Seated Dollar. Sharpness of AU-50. Cleaned and retoned. Only 59,300 minted of this scarcer Civil War date. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,093
Lot 1722		1869 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded Proof 67 Star. Spectacular multi-color toning. Very vivid colors! A simply breathtaking Superb Gem, both sides are filled to overflowing with fabulous colors and not a single post-striking impairment. The fully struck devices are heavily frosted above unfathomably deep fields. As befits a Proof striking, the devices are sharp, razor-sharp in all areas. The 1869 is not especially elusive as a Proof (at least when compared to earlier pre-1858 Proofs in the seated dollar series), since there were 600 minted, but examples that grade finer than Gem Proof 65 are rare. This is the tied with a "white" NGC Proof 67 Deep Cameo coin in the prestigious Proof 67 grade; PCGS reports a single Deep Cameo example also grading PR67 (12/05). The reverse die used to strike this coin was heavily polished, with the result that the bottom edge of the scroll on which IN GOD WE TRUST is inscribed is attenuated below the final letters. In addition, there are several unfinished areas within the reverse shield stripes. Apparently, most Proof 1869 Seated Dollars were produced from this die marriage. Pop 1; none better (PCGS # 7017) . Estimated Value $35,000 - 40,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1723		1869 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded Proof 62 Cameo. Mostly untoned. The imprint that was left by the dies shows a certain clarity, but it is normal for this date with minor flattening on the tops of the feathers on the eagle's leg and left wing as well as Liberty's leg. Light hairlines. Only 600 proofs issued. Pop 5; 13 finer in cameo. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,300
Lot 1724		1869 Liberty Seated Dollar. PCGS graded MS-62. Frosty white example. Small flaw below the 1st star. Nice surfaces; this is one of the earlier pieces from the newly adopted With Motto reverse (1866-1873) and has all the charm and desirable features collectors expect in a Mint State seated Liberty dollar (PCGS # 6962) . Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,335
Lot 1725		1870. PCGS graded Proof 60. With only 1,000 minted in Proof, this is a scarce coin in all grades. Well struck. Light golden toning on bothsides, Pop 16. (PCGS # 7018) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,668
Lot 1726		1870-CC Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded MS-61. Light greyish toning. Slightly prooflike. A lovely specimen of the first seated Liberty dollar from the Carson City, Nevada Mint. This piece is classified as MS-61, is somewhat Prooflike, and is an attractive example of the issue. The striking is about typical for 1870-CC, with some lightness on the head of details and on the stars. Both obverse and reverse are toned medium gray and gold. Just 11,758 were made of this issue, and from that quantity fewer than 1,000 exist today. Over the generations of collectors that have come and gone the 1870-CC has always been very popular with numismatists, representing as it does the only truly affordable seated dollar from this particular mint in Mint condition. Pop 6; 6 better. (PCGS # 6964) . Estimated Value $10,000 - 12,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1727		1873 Liberty Seated Dollar. NGC graded Proof 64. A hint of light gold and blue colors.A small scratch below the breast; a sparkling Proof of the low mintage end-of-series year for this actively collected seated Liberty. Pleasing luster blends effortlessly with pale toning highlights on the choice surfaces. Pop 42; 21 finer. 600 proofs issued. (PCGS # 7021) . Estimated Value $4,200 - 4,700. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $4,485
Lot 1728		1874 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 64 Cameo. Well struck and white. Choice for the grade. This is a shimmering, silver-colored frosted Proof whose bold strike is impressive for the series and for a Proof since both sides are typically weak in areas, even for the Proof grades. Aesthetic appeal, and then some! Only 700 Proofs made. Pop 8; 2 in 65 Cameo; 1 in 66 Cameo. (PCGS # 87054) . Estimated Value $5,500 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $6,038
Lot 1729		1874 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 64 Cameo PQ. Only 700 proofs issued. A nice white coin. A glowing icy freshness is emitted from undisturbed original surfaces whose beauty in spite of a few light hairlines, is well established. In winding this up, we are pleased to see also a strike faithful to every detail from a full blow by the dies, with marvelously crisp detail found at the main devices, including all 13 stars. Pop 8; 2 in 65 Cam; 1 in 66 Cam. (PCGS # 87054) . Estimated Value $5,500 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1730		1875 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 65 Cameo. Fully white coin. An astonishing gem of this early issue, one of the best possible order for a gem glittering Proof whose satiny devices play host to robust detail from center to periphery, including all stars, which have needle-sharp detail. Only 700 proofs struck. Pop 13; 1 in 65 Star Cameo; 4 in 66 Cameo. Estimated Value $8,500 - 9,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1731		1875 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded MS-64. Frosty white coin. The surfaces are a modest silvery bright, with satiny rather than heavily frosted bright luster. Often, a soft impact was left by the recoil of the likely worn dies that struck this year's coinage; but in a few instances like the present one, the opposite is the case and the coin has a very convincing impression. Pop 16; 3 finer at PCGS in Mint State. (PCGS # 7037) . Estimated Value $4,000 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $5,175
Lot 1732		1875-S Trade Dollar. SEGS graded MS-63. Bright and frosty although somewhat affected by dark areas on the eagle. Our grade is MS62. Estimated Value $900 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1733		1875-S Trade Dollar. PCGS graded MS-64 PQ. Brilliant white. Although essentially brilliant, the smooth, satiny surfaces show a decided tinge of iridescent color cast at certain angles. Unlike the general run of pieces of this caliber, where there are weak spots on the high points of the design, the strike is thoroughly convincing in all places (PCGS # 7039) . Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $4,600
Lot 1734		1875-S Trade Dollar. PCGS graded MS-64. Medium grey and gold toning. Brilliant ice-clear silvery luster underpins the smooth if somewhat irregular toning on the surface of this very choice Trade dollar. What one sees usually on this mint's coinage is an soft impression left by the recoil of the dies on some stars but mainly on the eagle's wings; greatly to our pleasure and the bidders' profit, on the other hand, that is not the case here. This coin is sharp, very sharp, in fact. Pop 155; 31 finer. (PCGS # 7039) . Estimated Value $2,700 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,220
Lot 1735		1875-S Trade Dollar. S over CC. NGC graded MS-64. A frosty well struck specimen. For more than 30 years the existence of a second variety of the S/CC had been rumored and speculated, but no one has actually seen an example, and it has rarely been photographed. This is your opportunity to acquire a strictly graded, toned and fresh appearing MS64 specimen with Type 1 obverse and reverse. Examination of this piece with a strong magnification reveals why this variety has remained elusive so long, and why it is difficult to discern with the unaided eye (unlike the traditional S/CC Trade Dollar). The second C was virtually effaced on the die. This most likely occurred when a mint employee lapped or polished the CC mintmark off with an emery stick. This removed most, but not all traces of the second C. Pop 3; 1 in 65 as best. Estimated Value $16,000 - 19,000. Ex: Genaitis Collection. View details	Realized $20,125
Lot 1736		1876 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 65. Nice green and blue toning. An very bright and lustrous toned gem that you can use as a benchmark for other examples struck in 1876 that share this towering grade.While the strike is forthright and crisp, it is only reasonably full, yet without doubt few of the breast details on Liberty and wing feather details are left to the imagination. 1,150 proofs issued. Pop 15; 4 in 66; 1 in 67. (PCGS # 7056) . Estimated Value $6,500 - 7,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $7,763
Lot 1737		1877-S Trade Dollar. NGC graded MS-65. Lustrous, light creamy white in color. While Mint State examples are occasionally available through the near-Gem level, Gems are surprisingly elusive in the Trade dollar series. This is a frosty bright survivor that is indicative of an even higher grade. Pop 28; with 5 better. (PCGS # 7046) . Estimated Value $6,000 - 7,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $6,900
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. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1739		1879 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 66 Cameo Star. Brilliant white cameo gem. Highly lustrous and largely brilliant with cameo-white highlights on both sides. Just as fully struck as the 66 grade suggests, with outstanding detail in Liberty and the eagle as well including all the stars around Liberty (sometimes these are flattened in spots). The star designation tells you a lot about the aesthetic appeal of this particular 1879 Proof. It is dazzling! Pop 3 with 5 better in the "star" category. Estimated Value $12,500 - 15,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $15,525
Lot 1740		1879 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 66 Cameo. Fully white gem. A proof only year. A crisply struck coin glowing with icicle-white glow from the mirror fields and frosted devices. Unlike the usual unevenly struck survivor with its diminished to flat stars left by a weak blow of the dies, this handsome Proof 66 is very sharp in all areas including the stars and the eagle's wing. 1,541 issued. Pop 17; 22 finer. Estimated Value $12,000 - 13,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1741		1880 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 65 Cameo. A stunning gem white coin. The frosted devices imbued with striking white luster that graces the mirror depth of the surfaces that surround. Nicely struck for the date, indeed, about as fine as this date is ever found with only a couple of rounded stars noted. William Barber would have loved this one! (No, William Barber isn't one of the prospective bidders in the sale who couldn't attend; he's the chief engraver at the mint from 1869 to 1877 who designed this elegant Trade Dollar.) A proof only year. 1,987 issued for this year. Pop 13; 7 in 66 CAM; 6 in 67 CAM. (PCGS # 87060) . Estimated Value $8,000 - 9,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $11,270
Lot 1742		1881 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 66 Cameo. Mostly white with light gold toning around the edges. A satiny frosted, delightfull fresh example, rolling with mint sparkle and glowing with inner fire. Both the obverse and the reverse show delicate iridescent golden brown patina along the margin. Crisply struck and problem-free; just the ticket for a high-end set of United States Trade dollars. Mintage this year (all in Proof): only 1,541 pieces. Pop 9; 10 finer. Estimated Value $12,000 - 13,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 1743		1883 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 66 Cameo. Fully white gem. Proof only year. The wintry blast of white originality is utterly pleasing on this glittering gem cameo Proof. Given the proper amount of strike pressure by the specially made Proof dies, the coin is fully brought up on all key elements of the design. We see no reason to add in a "nevertheless" here, since there are no soft stars or flat spots on the breast and eagle as are sometimes found on this Proof-only date, none at all! Only 979 struck. Pop 7; none higher at PCGS. (PCGS # 87063) . Estimated Value $12,000 - 13,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1744		1883 Trade Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 66. Lovely blue and gold toning. For the date, a frosted relief, mirror-deep blue toned gem with deep reflectiveness on both sides. Attractively struck as well, with just outstanding crisp detail on Liberty and the eagle, as well as all of the stars and letters in the legends. Proof only year: 979 coins struck. Pop 12; 4 in 67. (PCGS # 7063) . Read what America's premier coin curmudgeon, Walter Breen, had to say about how Trade Dollars got foisted upon the naive public: "The issue of this coin was an expensive mistake -- its motivation mere greed, its design a triumph of dullness, its domestic circulation and legal-tender status a disastrous provision of law leading only to ghastly abuses, its repudiation a source of hardship for Pennsylvania coal miners and other laborers held in virtual peonage by company stores, its recall a long overdue but very mixed blessing, and its collection a source of decades of frustration." Now seeing this marvel of an 1883 Proof, collectors might take umbrage at Breen's commentary, but there is a grain of truth in his assertian that the circulation strikes at any rate caused no end of woe to the businessmen and workers of the late 19th century. Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $11,500
Lot 1745		1883 Trade Dollar. NGC graded Proof 63. Proof only year. 979 struck all proofs. Nice blue and silver toning on this sharply made Proof struck after it became obvious to the congress that this denomination was causing more problems for the public than ever anticipated. Of course, a lovely Proof like this causes nothing but nods of the head and agreement that it is an attractive coin in attractive condition (PCGS # 7063) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,645