Stack's Bowers Galleries

August 2024 Global Showcase Auction  –  12 - 23 August 2024

Stack's Bowers Galleries, August 2024 Global Showcase Auction

Ancient and World Coins and Currency

Part A: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part B: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part C: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 1: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 3: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part D: We, 14.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 14.08.2024, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 5: Th, 15.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part E: Fr, 16.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Fr, 16.08.2024, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Sa, 17.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Sa, 17.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Mo, 19.08.2024, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part G: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part H: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 10: We, 21.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part I: We, 21.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 11: Th, 22.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part J: Th, 22.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part K: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 12: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
The auction is closed.

Description

1868 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. OC-3, FS-301. Rarity-4-. Top 30 Variety. Misplaced Date. AU Details--Cleaned (PCGS).
The 1868 begins a trend toward higher circulation strike coinage of silver dollars that continues through the end of the Liberty Seated series in early 1873. Domestic production at the Comstock and other sources had reached a level beginning in the late 1860s that made bullion depositors increasingly look to the dollar as a storehouse of excess silver. Once converted into coin form, this bullion was primary used in the export trade with the Orient, which claimed much of the 162,100-piece mintage for the circulation strike 1868. The 300 to 400 survivors that Q. David Bowers (2016) accounts for in worn condition largely represent coins that returned from export to other countries, mostly in Europe and Latin America, and subsequently escaped domestic melting.
PCGS# 6961. NGC ID: 24ZB.

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Price realized 1'700 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 1'500 USD
The auction is closed.
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