1870-CC Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. OC-1. Rarity-4-. MS-63 (PCGS).

A phenomenal example of this historic, extremely popular, yet also conditionally challenging CC-Mint silver dollar issue. This sale marks our firm's second offering of this important 1870-CC. When featured in our (Stack's) May 2003 sale of the fabulous L.K. Rudolf Collection of U.S. Silver Dollars, it was described in part as, "Evenly struck, frosty surfaces are awash in waves of jade and rose-red iridescence on either side." While most of the few 1870-CC dollars that have been certified by PCGS and NGC at the MS-63 level are extensively toned, as here, most lack the intensity of luster that this coin also possesses. The colors are unusually vivid, as well, and provide outstanding eye appeal. Smoother in hand than one might expect at the assigned grade level, this coin is eagerly awaiting inclusion in an advanced collection of Liberty Seated dollars or CC-Mint coinage. The first of only four Carson City Mint Liberty Seated silver dollars, the 1870-CC, with a mintage of 12,462 pieces, is also the most available in today's market. The novelty of these large silver coins with the CC mintmark resulted in a fair number of examples being set aside as keepsakes at the time of issue, as well as being plucked from circulation in years later. In his outstanding new reference The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, Volume I (2020), Carson City Mint expert Rusty Goe estimates that 650 to 875 coins are extant in all grades. Most are well worn and grade no finer than VF. The author's estimate for Mint State survivors dwindles to just 23 to 28 pieces, and he describes the present example as "probably one of the most desirable of the moderately to heavily toned MS-63 pieces." With an impressive provenance furthering enhancing the coin's appeal, this is an outstanding offering worthy of undivided bidder attention.

PCGS# 6964. NGC ID: 24ZE.

Selections from the Aberg Collection. Ealier ex our (Stack's) sale of the L.K. Rudolf Collection of U.S. Silver Dollars, May 2003, lot 2135; Legend Collection; Bob R. Simpson; Heritage's sale of Selections from the Bob R. Simpson Collection, January 2016 FUN Signature Auction, lot 5461.