1866 G$1 MS(PCGS#7565)

June 2026 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

競売業者

Stack's Bowers

ロット番号

4142

グレード

MS65

価格

5,856

ロット詳細

Frosty golden-apricot surfaces also reveal delicate pinkish-rose highlights at more direct viewing angles. Fully struck and highly attractive for this scarce early Reconstruction era gold dollar. This circulation strike issue was produced to the extent of just 7,100 pieces. It is not as rare as either the 1865 or 1864, as the slightly higher mintage would suggest, but in an absolute sense the 1866 is very scarce to rare in all grades. Interestingly, many of the 1866 gold dollars extant are Mint State, indicative of the fact that this issue did not see widespread circulation. Gold coins disappeared from circulation in the Eastern states and Midwest after the suspension of specie payments early in the Civil War, and they would not return to active commerce in those regions until gold and paper money once again achieved parity in the market in late 1878. Most survivors of this issue probably owe their existence to small quantities of coins that were kept as bank reserves until snatched up dealers and collectors during the later decades of the 19th century.