Tied for Highest Graded, Frosty White Despite the relatively high mintage of 1.3 million pieces, the 1892-CC Morgan dollar is not one of the most available Carson City issues. Most of the coins were released into circulation during different periods over the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, and relatively few were included in the…
Courtesy of ZeroHedge by Tyler Durden First it was supposed to be just a mid-month tax payment issue coupled with an accelerated cash rebuild by the US Treasury. Then, it was supposed to be just quarter-end pressure. Then, once the Fed rolled out QE4 while keeping both its overnight and term repo operations, the mid-September repo rate fireworks which…
Tied for Highest Graded The 1881-O is the rarest New Orleans Mint eagle from the early part of this decade. Coins graded AU55 to AU58 are very rare, and there are only a small number of Mint State examples known. In 2006, Winter reported probably four of five Uncirculated pieces extant, a number that likely…
Only 7 Graded Higher The 1857 Liberty double eagle claims a mintage of 439,375 pieces and the issue is not difficult to locate in circulated grades up to the XF-AU level. This issue was not nearly as well-represented in recent shipwreck finds as its San Francisco counterpart, with only two examples recovered from the S.S. Central…
Rare, Last Year-Of-Issue Struck to the extent of a meager 2,300 pieces, the 1873-CC Seated dollar melds the perennial popularity of the Carson City Mint’s CC mintmark with the last year of issue for the Seated dollar design into an in-demand numismatic rarity. The paltry surviving population was further reduced by the likely melting of…
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