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***Auction Highlight*** 1875-s /CC FS-501 Trade Dollar $1 Grades Unc Details (fc)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:825.00 - 3,300.00 USD
***Auction Highlight*** 1875-s /CC FS-501 Trade Dollar $1 Grades Unc Details (fc)
***Auction Highlight*** 1875-s /CC FS-501 Trade Dollar $1 Grades Unc Details. Up for auction for the very first time by Sandi and me is the Legendary 1875-s s/cc Trade Dollar. Per Ron Guth at PCGS �The 1875-S over CC Trade Dollar is one of a group of interesting and unexpected varieties created when mint engravers used dies intended for one of the branch mints, then overpunched the mintmark with that from another. Thus, we see coins such as the 1875-S/CC Trade Dollar, the 1900-O/CC Morgan Dollar. and later issues such as the 1955-D/S Nickel, all of which are important coins to collectors. Currently, the 1875-S/CC is the only major Trade Dollar variety recognized by PCGS. As such, it is the rarest of all the Trade Dollars in Mint State, even edging out all of the celebrated CC issues. PCGS has only ever certified 79 coins as the s/cc. For some reason at least two Carson City reverse dies of the Type I style, with tall CC letters, had the CC mintmark partially effaced and overpunched with an S mintmark. This issue was generally unknown to numismatists until the early 1960s. One of the earliest market appearances of the variety was in New Netherlands Coin Company's sale of December 10-11, 1963; In his Encyclopedia, p. 468, Walter H. Breen credits the discovery to C.H. Farrar, who published the variety in the Numismatic Scrapbook. Today, it is considered to be scarce in lower grades and quite rare in Mint State. As it is the most significant die variety in the trade dollar series. In Mint State, the 1875-S/CC is considered to be slightly rarer than the famous 1878-CC.