Natural Toning
1870


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Coin Details

  

Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: SILVER DOLLARS - SEATED LIBERTY, NO MOTTO
Item Description: $1 1870
Grade: PCGS AU 58
Owner: Hagop
 
Winning Set: Natural Toning
Date Added: 4/6/2021
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

An undeniably original example with a purple and blue obverse center that changes to gold around the date and stars. The golden colored reverse displays beautiful light lavender highlights when tilted under a light. Both sides of this beautiful and naturally toned specimen are sharp and remarkably free of marks.

Similar to the number minted for the 1869, the circulation strike mintage for the 1870 amounted to an unusually large (by Liberty Seated dollar standards) total of 415,000 pieces. These were struck at the request of bullion depositors, and many were used in the export trade to the Orient, where they were subsequently melted. Since enough examples have survived to make the 1870 one of the more common Liberty Seated issues in an absolute sense, an unusually large number of examples must have been retained in the United States. Common date status or not, of course, all circulation strike Liberty Seated dollar issues are scarce, if not rare, in problem-free and fully original Choice AU condition.

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