Posted 11/15/2023 02:37 am
Your coin looks gem unc and spectacular but I am not an expert in this series.
I think PCGS has it wrong. It has the 1888 T3 G$1 at 14.7mm/1.7 g
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1888-g-1/7589
But NGC lists it at 15mm/1.67g
https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explor.../1888-g1-ms/
The NGC article here goes over how the G$1 grew in size and weight during its mint run through the 19th century.
https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explor...s-1849-1889/
"In 1854, the Mint took steps to remedy the problem; without changing the gold dollar's weight, it increased the coin's diameter to 15 millimeters. This yielded a coin that was noticeably larger, considerably thinner and, presumably, less likely to get lost. But the new Type 2 dollar had a serious deficiency of its own: Its designer, Chief Engraver James Barton Longacre, had made the relief too high on the obverse. As a consequence, very few examples were fully struck and virtually all the coins wore down quickly in circulation, deteriorating rapidly into all-but-dateless disks with fading features."
No note is made of the weight.
And Greysheet lists it at 15mm/1.67g if you press catalog details
https://www.greysheet.com/coin-pric...-dollar/8051
And numista lists it at 15mm/1.67g
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces23120.html
My RedBook says that the original type 1 dollars were 13mm/1.672g. Type 2 were same as type 1 but 15mm. No changes noted for type 3.
I would have it graded to be sure as it is in great condition. Gem imho.
I think PCGS has it wrong. It has the 1888 T3 G$1 at 14.7mm/1.7 g
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1888-g-1/7589
But NGC lists it at 15mm/1.67g
https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explor.../1888-g1-ms/
The NGC article here goes over how the G$1 grew in size and weight during its mint run through the 19th century.
https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explor...s-1849-1889/
"In 1854, the Mint took steps to remedy the problem; without changing the gold dollar's weight, it increased the coin's diameter to 15 millimeters. This yielded a coin that was noticeably larger, considerably thinner and, presumably, less likely to get lost. But the new Type 2 dollar had a serious deficiency of its own: Its designer, Chief Engraver James Barton Longacre, had made the relief too high on the obverse. As a consequence, very few examples were fully struck and virtually all the coins wore down quickly in circulation, deteriorating rapidly into all-but-dateless disks with fading features."
No note is made of the weight.
And Greysheet lists it at 15mm/1.67g if you press catalog details
https://www.greysheet.com/coin-pric...-dollar/8051
And numista lists it at 15mm/1.67g
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces23120.html
My RedBook says that the original type 1 dollars were 13mm/1.672g. Type 2 were same as type 1 but 15mm. No changes noted for type 3.
I would have it graded to be sure as it is in great condition. Gem imho.
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THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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