1870 Pattern Quarter Dollar. Judd-877, Pollock-974. Rarity-7-. Silver.

1870 Pattern Quarter Dollar. Judd-877, Pollock-974. Rarity-7-. Silver. Plain Edge. Proof-65 (PCGS). CAC. Obv: Standard Silver design with a stylized Liberty Seated portrait to left with liberty pole and cap behind. Liberty is holding an olive branch in her left hand, and her right hand supports a shield over which a scroll inscribed LIBERTY is draped. There are 13 stars around the border, and the date 1870 is below. Rev: The denomination 25 CENTS is within a wreath of cotton and corn with the word STANDARD above. A flashy and vividly toned specimen dressed in gently mottled reddish-apricot iridescence that gives way to bolder cobalt blue here and there at the borders. According to the uspatterns.com website, these were issued at the Mint in sets for collectors of the era. The same source reports that only about a dozen specimens of Judd-877 are extant. Provenance: From Heritage's Santa Clara Sale of November 2000, lot 7382, as PCGS Proof-66; Heritage's Long Beach Signature Sale of June 2001, lot 9468, as NGC Proof-67; Heritage's Atlanta Signature Sale of August 2001, lot 8367, as NGC Proof-67; Heritage's November 27, 2001 Exclusively Internet Auction, lot 4689, as NGC Proof-67; our (American Numismatic Rarities') Thomas H. Sebring Collection sale, January 2004, lot 47, as NGC Proof-67; Heritage's Denver Signature Auction of August 2006, lot 1455, as NGC Proof-67; our (Stack's) 74th Anniversary Sale, November 2009, lot 1738, as NGC Proof-67 Cameo; our Chicago ANA of August 2011, lot 9045, as NGC Proof-67 Cameo; Heritage's Anaheim Signature Auction of August 2016, lot 6343; Legend Rare Coin Auctions' Regency Auction 30, January 2019, lot 488. PCGS Population: 2; with a single Proof-66 finer. There are no grading events listed in the PCGS CAM or DCAM category. CAC Stickered Population: 1; 0. PCGS# 61121. NGC ID: 29WK. Click here for certification details from PCGS.

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