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Lot 0031 1852 Liberty Seated $1. Restrike PCGS Proof 61

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:10,000.00 USD Estimated At:20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD
Lot 0031 1852 Liberty Seated $1. Restrike PCGS Proof 61
Collectors looking to buy an 1851 silver dollar soon discovered that as a date, the 1852 seated dollar was also all but impossible to obtain. Bullion dealers and speculators had gathered up as many early 1850s silver coins as they could find and melted them with an eye to making a profit from the augmented value of silver caused by the California Gold Rush. By 1858, collectors began asking the Philadelphia Mint for examples of 1851 and 1852 dollars. Their pleas were rewarded with restrikes of those dates. The Proof Restrikes of 1852 were from different dies than the originals. A foremost and important opportunity for the specialist to acquire one of the key dates to this series.