Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 80

June Pre Long Beach Sale

Morgan Dollars

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 956		1878-CC GSA. MS-63. Housed in the Blue GSA Flat Pack. Nicely toned on the obverse. Choice mint luster. Estimated Value $750 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $793
Lot 957		1878. 7/8 TF. VAM-33, 7/4 TF. NGC graded MS-64 Prooflike. A beaming white coin whose prooflike condition possibly points to it having been an early strike from new dies. Desirable VAM variant in which the tail feathers appear as 7 over 4. Pop 1; 2 finer for the variety, 1 in 64+, 1 in 65. Estimated Value $700 - 750. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $541
Lot 958		1878 7/8TF Weak. NGC graded both MS-63. Lot of 2 coins. Estimated Value $300 - 325. View details	Realized $329
Lot 959		1878 8TF. NGC graded both MS-64 PQ. Both of the coins are graded quite conservatively. One is evenly toned while the other one is flashy white. According to the Breen encyclopedia, the 1878 Bland act, authorizing these silver dollars "mandated monthly Treasury purchases of $2 million to $4 million of new domestic silver bullion for coinage only into dollars. (Why only the one denomination? Because each silver dollar was heavier than two halves, four quarters, or 10 dimes.) The coins were commonly known as �buzzard dollars� or �Bland dollars,� and after about 1892 also as �dollars of our daddies� or �daddy dollars,�" says the always cynical Walter Breen. Lot of 2 coins (PCGS # 7072) . Estimated Value $650 - 700. View details Check results on similar lots	Realized $676
Lot 960		1878. 8 tail feathers. PCGS graded MS-63. Frosty (PCGS # 7072) . Estimated Value $200 - 210. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $270
Lot 961		1878. 8 tail feathers. Sharpness of AU-50. Light hairlines. Estimated Value $50 - 60. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $59
Lot 962		1878. 7 TF, Reverse of 1878. NGC graded MS-64. A nice white coin with semi-reflective fields (PCGS # 7074) . Estimated Value $200 - 210. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $212
Lot 963		1878 7 TF Reverse of 1878. NGC graded MS-62. Premium Quality for the grade. Lot of 2 coins (PCGS # 7074) . Estimated Value $150 - 160. View details Check results on similar lots	Realized $176
Lot 964		1878. 7 TF, Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66 PQ. CAC Approved. Lovely light golden toning. Finest we have seen for the date. Having exhausted its supply of 8 Tail Feathers and 7/8 Tail Feathers dies, the Mint at last switched permanently to the anatomically correct 7 Tail Feathers version. For at least the first few months of 1878, the reverse dies depicted an eagle with a flat breast and a parallel fletch on the top arrow. Since no eagle alive has a sunken chest, and unless one of the arrows held by the eagle was bent, the perspective was wrong, these two problems needed fixing on the reverse dies. At the end of 1878, a new eagle punch was incorporated where the eagle's breast was rounded while the top fletch was slanted. Coins struck from this new die. They became known as the "Reverse of 1879" to differentiate them from the earlier dies. It is for this reason that the 1878 7 Tail Feathers is found with either a Reverse of 1878 (rather common) or a Reverse of 1879. Pop 18; none finer at PCGS (PCGS # 7076) . Estimated Value $10,000 - 11,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $12,338
Lot 965		1878. 7 TF Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. A nice white gem tied for the finest graded at PCGS. The surfaces range from silvery to downright gorgeous hard white frost. A lustrous and well struck Gem. Far in advance of most, this 1878 Reverse of 1879 was struck with systematic exactness including (not excepting) the often seen central weak areas in the design. Devices foursquare and bold throughout. Pop 18; none finer at PCGS (PCGS # 7076) . Historic note: From the late-1870s onward, there was an excess of silver coins in the country, first evident in 1877, but becoming a serious problem even before specie resumption began in 1879. At the time, only the silver dollar was legal tender for any amount. Lesser denomination had caps that varied over time, but merchants or banks or government offices could, and did, refuse payment beyond the specified amount. The general public managed to get rid of the smaller denomination coins in various ways, chiefly through purchases of stamps, payments to the government wherever the Treasury offices would accept them, and deposits in the banks. They poured into the Treasury in a steady stream from 1876 to 1880. Meanwhile the Treasury was paying out new subsidiary Seated Liberty coins in redemption of fractional notes after 1875. When the Bland-Allison Act began to add silver dollars in 1878, the country was called on to absorb in large numbers new subsidiary coins, old subsidiary coins from abroad, trade dollars, and the new standard silver dollars we now call Morgan dollars. Fortunately, the Morgan dollars were used in large part as backing for Silver Certificate paper money, and so were stored in Treasury and bank vaults for the most part. Estimated Value $8,500 - 9,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $12,338
Lot 966		1878. 7 TF, Reverse of 1879. NGC graded MS-66. Well struck and white. Tied for Finest graded. Pop 17; none finer at NGC (PCGS # 7076) . Estimated Value $8,500 - 9,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $9,106
Lot 967		1878. 7 TF, Reverse of 1879. NGC graded MS-61 and MS-63. Lot of 2 coins (PCGS # 7076) . Estimated Value $240 - 250. View details Check results on similar lots	Realized $353
Lot 968		1878. 7/8 Strongly doubled tail feathers. PCGS graded MS-64. CAC Approved. A nice white coin (PCGS # 7078) . Estimated Value $350 - 400. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $423
Lot 969		1878-CC. NGC graded MS-65 DPL. A nice white coin. Pop 31; 1 finer in 65 Star (PCGS # 97081) . Estimated Value $5,500 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $6,463
Lot 970		1878-CC. PCGS graded MS-65. Nice light gold tone on both sides. The satin-like luster is almost unimpaired by abrasions of any size. This is a well-struck first-year example with exceptional details. It has no bothersome uneven color or points of distraction. A gem! (PCGS # 7080) . Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,528
Lot 971		1878-CC. NGC graded MS-65. Attractive multi-dimensional toning graces both sides of this Gem. Beautiful gold, lavender, purple, blue, with steely iridescence thrown in for good measure. And on both sides (PCGS # 7080) . Estimated Value $1,250 - 1,300. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,351
Lot 972		1878-CC. PCGS graded MS-62 Prooflike. A hint of gold tone (PCGS # 7081) . Estimated Value $350 - 360. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $423
Lot 973		1878-S. NGC graded MS-65. A satiny gem. Minor marks on the cheek and the reverse, otherwise this coin would be graded a point higher. Good eye appeal and very attractive (PCGS # 7082) . Estimated Value $250 - 275. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $247
Lot 974		1878-S. NGC graded MS-65. Frosty surfaces and pastel luster on both sides. Boldly struck (PCGS # 7082) . Estimated Value $250 - 275. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $270
Lot 975		1879. PCGS graded Proof 67 Cameo. Only 1,100 minted. A wonderful white Gem Proof Cameo. Bright snow-white surfaces with a change to more subtle "mirror black depth" when the coin is viewed at an angle; any refracted light seems to be drawn into the coin as though into a Black Hole in space! Liberty�s profile, along with the strikingly beautiful spread-winged eagle, rise in stark cameo frosted relief against this endlessly swirling, mesmerizing mirror pool. It is thought that the Proofs of 1879 were still being struck on the old Mint screw press which gave a unique style of "squeeze" to the coin blanks during striking. Sometime in 1880 or thereabouts, the screw press was retired and the Mint's hydraulic Medal Press substituted for striking the annual Proof coins. Some scholars even claim to be able to tell from the coins when this change occurred. Putting aside the luster for now, on to the strike. Here again, it is easy to see this piece received a full, sharp blow by the dies. Probably a good many are not nearly as carefully struck as this fabulous Superb Gem 1879 Morgan Dollar, the coin has no suggestion or even a whisper of weakness at the main devices. Pop 5; 1 finer in 68 (PCGS # 87314) . The Year 1879: The U.S. Mint was reopened to the free mintage of gold after the hiatus of the Civil War and Reconstruction, on January 2, 1879. In celebrating the event General James A. Garfield (later President) stated in an address delivered in Chicago: "We shall hear echoes of the old conflict, such as the 'barbarism and cowardice of gold and silver' and the 'virtues of fiat money'. The theories which gave them birth will linger among us like belated ghosts, but soon will find rest in the political grave of dead issues." Garfield warned that the 'periodic craze' of fiat paper money might sweep over the country from time to time. Estimated Value $12,000-UP. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $21,738
Lot 976		1879. NGC graded MS-65. Solid for the grade, a bright lustrous Gem. Scarcer than the more commonly seen S-mint this year (PCGS # 7084) . Estimated Value $525 - 550. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $617
Lot 977		1879. NGC graded MS-65. Extra smooth with only a few visible marks on the neck. A bold strike (PCGS # 7084) . Estimated Value $525 - 550. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,146
Lot 978		1879. NGC graded both MS-64 PQ. These coins exhibit impressive gem qualities. A premium bid is warranted to prove the value of these two attractive pieces. Lot of 2 coins (PCGS # 7084) . Estimated Value $200 - 220. View details Check results on similar lots	Realized $282
Lot 979		1879. NGC graded both MS-64 PQ. Both coins appear to be conservatively graded. Lot of 2 coins (PCGS # 7084) . Estimated Value $200 - 220. View details Check results on similar lots	Realized $247
Lot 980		1879-CC. PCGS graded EF-45. Mostly untoned, the surface is light silver gray in color. We note minor weakness at the hair above the ear. This is normal for many CC-mint dates, and especially for 1879-CC (PCGS # 7086) . Estimated Value $600 - 625. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,175
Lot 981		1879-O. PCGS graded MS-63. Well struck and a nice white coin (PCGS # 7090) . Estimated Value $200 - 220. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $294
Lot 982		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. NGC graded MS-66 Star. CAC Approved. Lovely rainbow toning on the obverse, with the underlying luster extremely fresh with "cartwheel" spin to it. Rare to find this attractive (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 983		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. NGC graded MS-67. CAC Approved. A nice white coin with vivid silvery "color" and gleaming, cartwheel spin in the fields. Superb quality (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $600 - 650. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $646
Lot 984		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. CAC Approved. PQ. Frosty and untoned, this coin, too, is a splendid Gem. Housed in an Old Green Holder (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $311
Lot 985		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. CAC Approved. PQ. A nice white coin. Housed in an Old Green Holder (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $270
Lot 986		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. CAC Approved. PQ. Well struck as are the other 1879-S examples from this Gem consignment of Morgan Silver Dollars. Housed in an Old Green Holder (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $306
Lot 987		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. CAC Approved. PQ. Well struck and choice. Housed in an Old Green Holder (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $317
Lot 988		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. Gold CAC Sticker. PQ. Well struck, frosty with lovely partial reverse rainbow toning. Housed in a PCGS First Generation Holder (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $317
Lot 989		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. Gold CAC Sticker. PQ. Frosty, white, and under graded. Housed in a PCGS First Generation Holder (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $282
Lot 990		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. NGC graded MS-64 Star. CAC Approved. Beautiful rainbow toning. Radiant luster on both sides (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $188
Lot 991		1879-S. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-64+. Wonderful gold toning on both sides (PCGS # 7092) . Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $112
Lot 992		1880. PCGS graded MS-66. Well struck and white. A nice example of this P-mint issue, the fields being bright and lustrous, the designs boldly struck and well detailed. Substantial detail to the highpoints on this fine example include full hair and a smooth, well contoured cheek on Liberty, with the same razor-sharp eagle whose wings and chest show full feathers. Simply stunning quality and eye appeal for a Morgan dollar. Pop 124; 7 finer in 66+ (PCGS # 7096) . Estimated Value $1,800 - 1,900. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 993		1880. PCGS graded MS-63. Lovely rainbow toning on both sides (PCGS # 7096) . Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $129
Lot 994		1880. PCGS graded MS-63. PQ. Lovely light blue and gold toning on both sides. Housed in a PCGS First Generation Holder. Estimated Value $150 - 175. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $129
Lot 995		1880/79-CC. Reverse of 1878 Top 100 VAM 4. PCGS graded MS-64+PL. CAC Approved. Well struck and white, the fields dancing with refletive luster. Has the desirable Flat Chest Eagle with Reverse of 1878. Pop 1; none finer at PCGS for the variety (PCGS # 7108) . Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,600. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,939
Lot 996		1880-CC, 8 over high 7. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. Well struck and frosty white. Pop 67; 20 finer, 13 in 66+, 6 in 67, 1 in 67+ (PCGS # 7102) . Estimated Value $1,600 - 1,700. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,468
Lot 997		1880-CC. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-66. Frosty and white, the verb eke, as in "eke out," traces to before 1000 A.D., and yet this coin, due to its supreme beauty, won't just eke out a quiet existence. Instead, it will stretch out to find countless bidders far into the future. The sparkling silver luster flares into heavy frostiness in all areas. Pop 722; 89 finer, 59 in 66+, 29 in 67, 1 in 67+ (PCGS # 7100) . Estimated Value $1,800 - 1,900. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 998		1880-CC. Reverse of 1879. PCGS graded MS-63. Frosty and untoned (PCGS # 7100) . Estimated Value $500 - 525. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $517
Lot 999		1880-S. NGC graded MS-68 Star. Frosty white with prooflike surfaces. A boldly original white-surface coin whose high-end depth of detail in the strike complements the equally fresh mint bloom. Even this condition of the luster isn't enough, since the sustaining strike is just as important to the phenomenal MS68 Star grade, with clear definition to the high points. Pop 26; 7 finer, 2 in 68+, 5 in 69 (PCGS # 7118) . Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,200. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,701
Lot 1000		1880-S. PCGS graded MS-67+ PQ. A hint of gold tone around the rims. Certainly a coin that should be graded MS68 (PCGS # 7118) . Estimated Value $900 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $999
Lot 1001		1880-S. NGC graded MS-67+. Well struck and white. Superb. A coin bursting with silvery afterglow, untoned and blazing white in appearance. The surfaces are virtually clear of marks. No one can honestly deny the vibrancy of the 1880-S dollar�s luster. This exceptional state of affairs, too, shows in the fully struck devices exhibiting fine detail to all the high points (PCGS # 7118) . Estimated Value $700 - 750. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $969
Lot 1002		1880-S. NGC graded MS-66 Star. The obverse displays rainbow toning (PCGS # 7118) . Estimated Value $650 - 750. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1003		1880-S. PCGS graded MS-65. CAC Approved. Wonderful obverse rainbow toning. A runaway coin (PCGS # 7118) . Estimated Value $500-UP. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $541
Lot 1004		1880-S. PCGS graded MS-64 Deep Mirror Prooflike. CAC Approved. Untoned. Housed in an Old Green Holder (PCGS # 97119) . Estimated Value $300 - 325. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $423
Lot 1005		1880-S. PCGS graded MS-66. CAC Approved. PQ. A nice Gem white coin, close to superb level. Housed in an Old Green Holder (PCGS # 7118) . Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $376

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