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…
Let That Hair Flow Flowing Hair Dollars were struck for less than two years before their replacement by the longer-lived Draped Bust type. High-grade survivors of this brief series are under tremendous demand from type set collectors. Unlike so many others and thankfully, this one looks un-dipped/original and displays even medium steel-grey color on both…
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