Three-Cent Piece, Silver, 1871, NGC MS 65 CAC (Gold)

A splendid specimen, with pale silvery-green toning and pink gold highlights. The surfaces are nearly perfect, but the strike is not quite full and the stars show some softness. But of exceptional overall quality.

Certificate number: 130025-001 (NGC 4 holder). NGC cites seventeen so graded, sixty-two finer, a single MS 68+ the finest. CAC cites only one gold example, this coin, none finer. The collector’s notes indicate that when this specimen was certified the population at this grade was 5. (02-18)