1873 1C Closed 3, BN MS(PCGS#2109)
1873 1C Closed 3, BN MS (PCGS#2109)
Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2143
- 等级
- MS65BN
- 价格
- 7,056
- 详细说明
- The mintage of 11,676,500 pieces for the circulation strike 1873 is divided between Close 3 and Open 3 examples. The former were struck from dies prepared before Chief Coiner Archibald Lowden Snowden's letter of January 18, 1873, to Mint Director Henry R. Linderman in which the chief coiner asserted that the close 3 date logotype was easily mistaken for 1878. Although no official record exists on the exact number of each variety produced, the 1873 Close 3 is scarcer and has an estimated mintage of 2,500,000 pieces (per Q. David Bowers, 2006 and Rick Snow, 2014). Attractive Gems such as this are in the distinct minority among survivors and represent a significant find when offered.