By CoinWeek ….
One of many highlights of Sunday’s U.S. coin public sale at GreatCollections is a near-finest 1897-O Morgan Silver Dollar from the Illinois Set Assortment. Licensed MS66+ and given a inexperienced CAC sticker, PCGS experiences solely two grading occasions at 66+, with a mere two finer at 67.
Morgan {Dollars} struck on the New Orleans Mint are well-known amongst collectors for his or her weak strike and lack of luster, which makes Mint State examples extremely coveted. As for the 1897-O itself, few Gem Mint State examples survive at this time as United States Mint luggage of the coin have been few and much between in financial institution and Treasury Division vaults.
Including to the strain that collectors of high-end Morgan Silver {Dollars} would possibly really feel is that just one or two 1897-Os hit the market in a given 12 months, so this represents fairly the chance. The coin provided by GreatCollections on Sunday, January 19, was final bought at Sotheby’s in 2018 as a part of the Illinois Assortment of Morgan {Dollars}, the place it realized $262,500. It was additionally beforehand owned at totally different occasions within the twentieth century by Wayne Miller, Ralph Stone, and Hoagy Carmichael(!).
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