1875 25C PR(PCGS#5576)

November 2017 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

1516

Grade

PR65

Price

1,680

Lot Description

1875 Liberty Seated Quarter. Proof-65 (PCGS). CAC. This lovely Gem quarter displays mottled olive-copper on antique silver on the obverse with lighter sandy-gray toning on the reverse. Delicate pink and powder blue highlights are also of note. This is a fully struck, very smooth survivor from a mintage of 700 Proof quarters of the date. PCGS# 5576. NGC ID: 23X7. PCGS Population: 11; 4 finer in this category (all Proof-66). Provenance: From our (Stack's) sale of the John Work Garrett Collection for The Johns Hopkins University, March 1976, part of lot 307; our sale of the Blue Moon Collection, Part I, March 2017, lot 2075.