Bill Jones' Type III Gold Dollars
1884

Owner Comments:

Despite its status as a "common date," I have found the 1884 gold dollar to be the most difficult date to find among the pieces dated in the 1880s. I had tried on several occasions to buy an example of this in the major auctions only to be left "choking in the dust" behind those who were will to pay a few thousand dollars above my bid for pieces grading MS-65.

This coin is "only" an MS-63, but it stacks up well against the MS-65 graded pieces that surround this piece in my collection. It has the P-L surfaces that are often found on the low mintage gold dollars from the 1880s, and the marks on the coin, which account for the MS-63 grade, are not distracting during a "naked eye" examination.