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1884-CC S$1 MS67 Prooflike NGC. In 1882, President Che

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1884-CC S$1 MS67 Prooflike NGC. In 1882, President Che
<B>1884-CC<img border='0' src='http://www.heritagecoins.com/images/star.gif' width=10 height=10>$1> MS67 Prooflike NGC.</B></I> In 1882, President Chester Arthur said this about silver dollars: "We now have 128 million of these 'jingers' and only 35 million are being used. We don't have room in the vaults for them. The public doesn't want them. Why do we make them?" President Arthur had apparently forgotten the Bland-Allison Act from just four years previous, which required the federal government to purchase between two and four million ounces of new silver <I>per month.</B></I> Thus, the 'jingers,' as he called them, continued to pile up in government vaults. Many of those produced in Carson City stayed in vaults until the 1970s, at which time they were finally distributed to the numismatic community. However, 90 years of storage were not kind to many CC dollars, and very few were located in what would be considered today as MS66 and MS67 grades. This is one of the rare exceptions. The surfaces are extraordinarily lustrous, as one would expect from a Carson City dollar. And the fields are bright and reflective. But what is notably absent are the abrasions that usually accompany CC dollars. The cheek of Liberty is smooth and virtually unblemished, and the mint frost on the eagle is equally abrasion-free. Fully struck in all areas, this is one of the finest Carson City dollars we have handled in some time and it would make an exceptional type coin. Census: 6 in 67, 0 finer (6/06).<BR><I>From The New York Eye Appeal Collection.</B></I>