141, Lot: 246. Estimate $100. Sold for $171. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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UNITED STATES. AR Trade Dollar (38mm, 27.25 g, 6h). San Francisco mint. Dated 1877 S. Liberty seated left, on cotton bale, holding branch and banner / Standing eagle facing, head right. Breen 5810 (1 and 8 touch, large S mint-mark). VF, toned.
Walter Breen comments: “The issue of this coin was an expensive mistake - its motivation mere greed, its design a triumph of dullness, its domestic circulation and legal-tender status a disastrous provision of law leading to ghastly abuses...and its collection a source of decades of frustration.”