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1879 Trade Dollar

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:22,500.00 USD Estimated At:45,000.00 - 55,000.00 USD
1879 Trade Dollar
<B>1879 Trade Dollar.</B> <B>NGC graded Proof 68 Cameo Star.</B> 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 &#40;or 1885, depending on just how much of a stickler you are where official versus &#34;unofficial&#34; Trade dollars are concerned&#41;. 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. <B>Pop 3; None higher.</B> <BR>Estimated Value &#36;45,000-55,000. <B R><BR>Our item number 89678<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://216.67.248.213/liveauction/34jpegs/089678.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://216.67.248.213/liveauction/34jpegs/089678N2.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>