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  This was in my watchlist for a while. Was able to pick up this first year issue from the Carson City Mint. From the catalog: A boldly toned example, generally sandy-gray in appearance, but with considerable mottling of steel-blue on the reverse. Both sides are well defined for the grade, the surfaces a bit muted with scattered marks, none of which are noteworthy in a lightly circulated CC-Mint dollar of this design type. One of only four Carson City Mint issues in the Liberty Seated silver dollar series. The 1870-CC, the 2,303 examples delivered on February 11 of that year represent the beginning of coinage operations at this branch mint. By year's end an additional 10,159 coins were struck for a total mintage of 12,462 pieces. (Carson City Mint expert Rusty Goe believes that the oft-quoted figure of 11,758 coins struck is an error made by numismatists who overlook two additional deliveries of coins, one made prior to June 30 and the other in August.) The novelty of these large silver coins with the CC mintmark resulted in a fair number of examples being snatched up by residents in and around Carson City at the time of issue, with others spared from being melted when they made their way into Treasury Department stocks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today we can account for upward of 700 survivors, most of which are well worn and grade no finer than VF. Provenance: From the Christopher M. Brookfield Collection. Earlier from Heritage's Long Beach Signature Auction of February 2009. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS 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." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
11/11/2025 4:50 pm
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What an incredible coin. That's a fantastic acquisition, numismatic student!  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Outstanding!  |
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Thanks for your comments. Looking through the Osburn-Cushing reference, I found that the OC-9 die pair variety is the most common of 9 die pairs for the ~12k coins minted which included 4 obverse dies and 6 reverse dies. But most surprising was that the OC-9 die pair was the first die pair in the researched emission sequence for the 1870-CC dollars.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS 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." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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 ooh la la. I want one of those. Still kicking myself over the one I didn't grab when it was available. |
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Oh my! numismatic student, I love the color on this Liberty Seated dollar, what a beautiful CC ! |
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Wow - fantastic CC mint Seated dollar. Beautiful coin and well acquired by NS. |
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Wicked nice example. Good eye, Mr. Student.
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Great purchase, NS! Errers and Varietys.
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Thank you for your kind comments.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS 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." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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I'm going to net grade this one due to the difference in what I see between the sides. the obv is a nice XF40+. the overall sharpness of of the reverse looks close to AU. after bouncing it up against several on PCGS, I'm going to net grade it at XF45
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AU-50. NS, you are my idol!
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Congratulations on your purchase. I am curious what appealed to you with this PCGS 45 at $9,000 from Stacks/Bowers yesterday
versus Stacks/Bowers sale of a PCGS AU 50 at $6900 this past Sept.?
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