1875-CC Twenty-Cent Piece : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …..
 

Manufacturing of the brand new Twenty-Cent Piece denomination commenced at a hanging ceremony held on the Carson Metropolis Mint on June 1, 1875. Current was Nevada Senator John Percival Jones (R), who agitated for the passing of the laws that added the “double dime” to an already crowded roster of subsidiary cash. Jones felt {that a} 20-cent coin would higher serve the western states, as minor cash just like the nickel and cent weren’t produced at any department mints.

Within the coin’s first month of manufacturing at Carson Metropolis, outgoing coiner W. Hy Doana struck 3,290 items. His alternative, Levi Dague, struck the remaining 130,000. In whole, 5 die marriages had been deployed.

Although the brand new denomination was the Nevada senator’s concept, the neighboring San Francisco Mint reached a wider service space and struck the vast majority of Twenty-Cent Items in 1875, with Carson Metropolis a distant second and the Philadelphia Mint trailing far behind.

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1875-CC Twenty-Cent Piece Market Information and Noteworthy Specimens

Regardless of a considerably larger mintage than the 1875 Philadelphia strike, the 1875-CC Twenty-Cent Piece instructions the best numismatic premium for the date.

Prime Inhabitants:  PCGS MS66+ (1, 11/2024), NGC MS67 (1, 11/2024), and CAC MS66 (6:0 stickered:graded 11/2024).

• NGC MS67* #3169085-001: B. Max Mehl; unknown intermediaries; Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2009, Lot 2296 – $80,500; Rusty Goe; “The Battle Born Assortment”, Stack’s Bowers, August 7, 2012, Lot 11100 – $64,625. BATTLE BORN COLLECTION on insert; Heritage Auctions, April 27, 2017, Lot 4028 – $52,875. BF-4 Selection attributed by Heritage. Vivid goal firming on the obverse and reverse.
• PCGS MS66+ CAC #25213671: Heritage Auctions, April 23, 2015, Lot 5008 – $51,700; “The Bender Household Assortment, Half I”, Heritage Auctions, August 24, 2022, Lot 3549 – $84,000. Bender Assortment on insert. BF-2 die marriage. Inexperienced, blue, and purple firming alongside rims.
• PCGS MS66 CAC #03149964: “The Stephenville Assortment”, Heritage Auctions, Could 3, 2023, Lot 3078 – $52,800. BF-2 selection attributed by Heritage.
• PCGS MS66 CAC #21070657: Rusty Goe to Eugene Gardner, Could 2003; “The Eugene H. Gardner Assortment. Heritage Auctions, June 2014, Lot 30338 – $49.937.50; “The Prestwick Assortment”, Heritage Auctions, November 11, 2021, Lot 3541 – $84,000. Aquamarine, inexperienced, and aubergine firming on either side.
• PCGS MS66 #35448117: As PCGS MS65 CAC #5112342. Legend Uncommon Coin Auctions, January 25, 2018, Lot 142 – $17,037.50. As PCGS MS66 #35448117. Legend Uncommon Coin Auctions, September 27, 2018, Lot 440 – $29,375. Regraded, upgraded one level.
• NGC MS66 #3898677-001: Heritage Auctions, June 4, 2015, Lot 3884 – $21,150. BF-2. Blue, aubergine, and gold rim firming.
• PCGS MS66 #25223790: Stack’s Bowers, March 2015, Lot 6043 – $25,850; Stack’s Bowers, Could 31, 2015, Lot 20325 – Passed; Heritage Auctions, August 12, 2015, Lot 4007 – $32,312.50.
• PCGS MS66 #25378624: Heritage Auctions, January 9, 2014, Lot 5206 – $48,468.75. Sensible.
• NGC MS66 CAC #3318874-008: Stack’s Bowers, November 6, 2013, Lot 2063 – $42,500 Reserve Not Met. Aquamarine firming.
• PCGS MS66 #6570410: Heritage Auctions, July 31, 2008, Lot 1624 – $63,250; “The Joseph C. Thomas Assortment, Half Two”, Heritage Auctions, April 2009, Lot 2295 – $40,250; Heritage Auctions, August 12, 2011, Lot 7094 – $48,875; “The Jim O’Neal Assortment of U.S. Kind, Half One”, Heritage Auctions, April 24, 2014, Lot 5576 – $47,000. Toned.
• PCGS MS65 CAC #14094649: Marketed by Legend Numismatics in April 2009 Coin World Advert for $45,000. Toned.
• NGC MS65 #695366-010: Waste Raymond, February 1947, Lot 464; “John Jay Pittman Assortment”, David Akers, October 1997, Lot 768; Heritage Auctions, March 6, 2008, Lot 466 – $20,700. Darkish goal toned obverse.

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