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Lot 2479
1872 Indian Head Cent. PCGS graded MS-64 Red. Lovely shades of Mint Red color. Includes Eagle Eye Photo Seal. Extraordinarily well preserved and bathed in luxuriant fresh coppery iridescence that gives this high grade specimen even greater appeal. Free from any distractions, an amazing specimen. Pop 47; 1 in 64+, 13 in 65, 1 in 66 (PCGS # 2105) .
Historic note for 1872: While buffaloes were being shot for sport in this period, another tragedy hit the Eastern Seabord: The Great Epizootic of 1872 as it was called saw an estimated four million horses killed by an equine virus suspected of having come from Canada. The number of sick horses approached 100% and mortality rates ranged between 1% and 10%. Many horses were unable to stand in their stalls and those who could stand coughed violently and were too weak to pull loads.
This wreaked havoc upon urban transportation which was still in the "horse and buggy" days. In September in Philadelphia and New York, men were hitched to street cars to haul passengers and to carts to haul goods! In November a fire in Boston devastated 766 buildings and caused an estimated $75 million in damage, in part because the majority of horses to pull steam fire engines were incapacitated. Commerce suffered, and the Epizootic was given as one of the precipitating causes of the following year's Panic of '73.
Estimated Value $4,400 - 4,600.
The Coltrin Family Collection.
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