Silver Dollar, 1879-CC (Perfect Mintmark), NGC MS 65 CAC

A splendid example, with a few marks on Liberty’s cheek and a thin short scratch in front of her face noted for identification. Lovely, hard and frosty fields. Attractive pale honey obverse toning, with an arc of blue green through the obverse legend; the reverse with pale peripheral toning at the dentils. A date which Wayne Miller noted as being “one of the most difficult of the Carson City Morgan dollars to obtain in gem condition.” Bowers also noted that these were even “[r]are in their own time.”

Certificate number: 2873723-003 (NGC 5 holder). NGC has graded sixty examples at this grade; neither of the major services has graded any finer than MS 66 (NGC records only two; and PCGS four). Of the more than 500 graded in all designations, CAC has certified forty at this level, and none finer. At the time of encapsulation no examples of this key date had been graded higher. (02-18)