1870-CC QUARTER DOLLAR
PCGS No: 5477
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 8,340
Proofs: None
Designer: Obverse by Thomas
Sully, modified by Christian Gobrecht and Robert Ball Hughes, executed
by James Barton Longacre;
Reverse by Christian Gobrecht, modified by James Barton Longacre
Diameter: 24.3 millimeters
Metal Content:
Silver - 90%
Copper - 10%
Weight: 96
grains (6.2 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "CC"
(for Carson City, NV) below the eagle on the reverse
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Significant examples:
NGC MS-64. Ex - Auctions by
Bowers & Merena, Inc.'s "Eliasberg", April 1997, Lot 1495,
sold for $187,000. Possibly from the S.H. & H. Chapman sale of
the Major William Boerum Wetmore collection, June 1906, sold for $10.
NGC AU-53. Ex- Stack's
"R.L. Miles", April 1969, Lot 982, sold for $1,250.00 - Stack's
"Speier" sale, March 1974, Lot 89, sold for $5,250.00 -
Superior's "Rasmussen" sale, February 1998, Lot 2031 - Heritage
Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s ANA sale, August 1999, Lot 6278, sold
for $24,150.00 - Superior's Long Beach sale, June 2000, Lot 1423 - Heritage
Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "October 2000 Long Beach Sale"
October 5-7, 2000, Lot 6135, plated, unsold
Recent appearances:
ANACS Net EF-40, sharpness of AU-50. Ex - Bowers & Merena
Galleries' "The Cabinet of Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part II", March
15-17, 2001, Lot 1618 sold for $10,350.00
Varieties:
Notes:
The finest example graded by PCGS is a single AU-55.
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, July 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
"A Population Study of
1870-CC Quarters" by Leonard Augsburger, Gobrecht Journal,
July, 2001, pages 5-6.
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