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1872-CC Liberty Seated $1 PCGS AU55

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1872-CC Liberty Seated $1 PCGS AU55
1872-CC. PCGS graded AU-58. From an original mintage of just 3150 With Motto business strikes from the Carson City Mint, many of which were melted. With the top of the 2 repunched and the mint mark widely spaced as all are. Obverse designed by Robert Ball Hughes, the reverse by James Barton Longacre, and the dies engraved by William Barber. Due to politically motivated orders from the Philadelphia Mint, the production at the Carson City Mint was at first artificially slowed down as part of an orchestrated campaign to close the entire mint, which was seen by Philadelphia as competition for government resources. Claims were circulated that the coins struck at Carson City were substandard, light weight, and contained more alloy and less silver than as required by the authorizing Act of January 18th, 1837 for fineness and March 3rd, 1865 for the inclusion of the motto on the reverse die. In 1873 the Bureau of the Mint ordered sample coins from Carson City Mints various deliveries and had them shipped to Philadelphia for testing. Sure enough, the samples were found to be substandard and illegal. Rather than correct the problem, the Mint authorities in Philadelphia publicly fired the Superintendent of the Carson City Mint with as much publicity as they could muster. The suspect coins were collected at banks or by other government authorities and returned to Philadelphia for melting and recoining into the safe Philadelphia product. In total, there are two hundred thirty-one survivors of the original mintage certified in all grades, leaving a seven percent survival rate for the entire mintage. There are twenty-three coins equal and twenty-five that are certified finer, making this particular example Rare in this condition. Seldom offered for sale.