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[L#0784] 1892-CC $1 PCGS MS66 POP: 17/2

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[L#0784] 1892-CC $1 PCGS MS66 POP: 17/2
A lustrous example, fully struck with rippling silver color, intense and dazzling as few other 1892-CC specimens. What's more pleasing still, it was struck with controlled precision throughout and shows ample separation between the hair strands (including those over the ear). On the reverse, the same attention to detail can be found in all the chest feathers on the eagle showing completely.

According to Bowers, in his work on the Morgan dollar series, when the Carson City Mint closed down, quantities of 1892-CC dollars were shipped for storage to the San Francisco Mint and, to a lesser extent, to the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. From the San Francisco Mint, quantities were paid out over a period of years, including 1925-1926, but particularly in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Some bags, but probably not many, were dispersed from the Cash Room at the Treasury Department in Washington during the same time frame, up through 1950-53. Few, if any, 1892-CCs were part of the Treasury release of 1962-64. When the government took stock of the situation in March 1964 and stopped paying out Morgan and Peace dollars of any and all dates, just a single Uncirculated 1892-CC dollar remained! The news of the non-availability of the 1892-CC in the surviving Treasury cache caused a run-up in prices in the 1960s and 1970s. Historically, the 1892-CC, like the 1890-CC and 1891-CC before it, was never considered to be a rare date. But now it was seen just how scarce the issue truly is.