Stack’s Bowers Galleries can be presenting a newly discovered 1881-O Branch Mint Proof Morgan Dollar of their November 2024 Showcase Public sale. Featured as a part of the unimaginable Darrel O. Neidigh, Jr. Assortment, this piece–lengthy off the market and beforehand unknown to the trendy numismatic group–was only recently graded by PCGS as Proof 64 and verified by each CAC and CMQ. It represents an unimaginable prize for superior collectors of key-date Morgan {Dollars} and Nineteenth-century Proof coinage.
Instantly acknowledged as one thing particular by Stack’s Bowers’ Philadelphia gallery, this Department Mint Proof 1881-O is one essentially the most astonishing numismatic discoveries lately. For many areas of numismatics there are few shock discoveries but to be made, particularly throughout the realm of late Nineteenth-century federal coinage. But the certification of a heretofore unknown Department Mint Proof Morgan Greenback resembling this 1881-O is actually historic. Few collection are as avidly collected because the Morgan Greenback collection.
Together with cash produced for circulation, restricted numbers of particular Proof cash have been struck for collectors every year on the Philadelphia Mint, with most years’ mintages being below 1,000 items.
Proofs have been additionally produced in a lot smaller numbers on the department mints in Carson Metropolis, New Orleans, and San Francisco. These Proofs struck exterior of the Philadelphia Mint are extraordinarily uncommon and most of the people have by no means seen one. Some dates are well-known, and there’s documentation for his or her creation; others (like this Proof 1881-O) haven’t any historic documentation. But there isn’t a doubt that this coin is a specifically created coin, constituted of a freshly polished pair of dies and specifically polished planchet. Care was taken in its execution, and since being produced it has been cared for by each one among its earlier homeowners, whose identities sadly are misplaced to historical past.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries is honored to supply collectors with the primary ever alternative to accumulate an authorized 1881-O Department Mint Proof greenback of their November sale. For questions on this historic rarity or to register for bidding, contact the agency at 800-458-4646 or e mail [email protected].
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