1877-S Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-62 (PCGS).

1877-S Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-62 (PCGS).，Otherwise satiny surfaces exhibits glints of semi-prooflike reflectivity that are most pronounced in the reverse field. Golden-orange in color with a sharp strike and eye appeal to spare. The 1877-S registered a mintage of 1,735,000 pieces, down some 138,000 pieces from the previous year. Face value equaled $34,700,000. Some portion of the mintage made it into overseas banking transactions, a familiar scenario -- and a blessing to later generations of numismatists. We estimate that 1,500 to 2,500 Uncirculated examples can be found today. Most of those, however, hover around the MS-60 and MS-61 grades. Many of the Mint State pieces known today are from European bank hoards that began to return to America in the 1950s. Prior to that time many of the "name" collections formed contained VF to EF examples of this issue.，From the RSC Collection.，