1871 $1 MS(PCGS#6966)

Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

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Stack's Bowers

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3188

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XF45

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1,586

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Iridescent pinkish-apricot and powder blue undertones backlight dominant smoky-silver patina. The 1871 is the first of only two Liberty Seated dollar issues with a circulation strike mintage in excess of 1 million pieces. Much of this output is due to increasing production at the Comstock and other Western mines. In order to fully understand the enormous (by the standards of this series) silver dollar mintages of 1871 and 1872, however, one further factor warrants consideration. A pending overhaul of the nation's coinage system was on the table in the early 1870s, one that would see, among a host of other changes, the abolition of the standard silver dollar and its replacement by the heavier trade dollar - the only true competitor to the Mexican dollar in the export trade to the Far East. The bill, which would eventually become law as the Act of February 12, 1873, was introduced in 1870. While Congress moved slowly through the debate process, bullion brokers took advantage of their final opportunities in 1871, 1872 and early 1873 to deposit silver with the Philadelphia Mint for coinage into standard silver dollars.<p>