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1873 G$1 Closed 3 PR65 Cameo NGC. Garrett Collection.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:22,500.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 2.00 USD
1873 G$1 Closed 3 PR65 Cameo NGC. Garrett Collection.
<B>1873 G$1 Closed 3 PR65 Cameo NGC.</B></I> Garrett Collection. The 1873 gold dollar is a major rarity among 19th century U.S. gold coins. It is also one that has been infrequently offered over the decades, and one that lacked any solid scholarship until Harry X Boosel discovered that all proofs of this year are of the Closed 3 variant. In the Garrett catalog in November 1979, Bowers was careful to state his uncertainty about this coin's status as a proof or first-strike prooflike, even though he did state that this piece showed a "conspicuous unfinished feather in the headdress located below the A in STATES." Nine years later Walter Breen published this as the sole diagnostic of genuine proofs in his <I>Complete Encyclopedia.</B></I><BR> Each side shows a number of lint marks from the dies being wiped with a cloth. The lint adhering to the dies then was stamped on the finished coin. The proof 1873 is one of the rarest coins in the entire gold dollar series. Only 25 proofs were struck. It is unlikely if half that number exist today as recognizable proof strikings. The fields are nicely mirrored but lack the depth that one might expect of a proof from this period. Even orange-gold coloration covers each side. An extremely rare opportunity for the gold dollar collector or aficionado of 19th century proof gold. Census: 1 in 65 Cameo, 0 finer (11/06).<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coin/Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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