1885-S $1 MS(PCGS#7164)

June 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

2238

Grade

MS66

Price

4,800

Lot Description

Exquisite toning in gently mottled crescents of pinkish-apricot, salmon pink, and steel blue light up the peripheries of this lustrous and satiny Gem. Much brilliance is also evident on both sides, the surfaces of which are expectably smooth at the assigned grade level. The 1885-S is among the scarcer San Francisco Mint Morgan dollars in Mint State, although in an absolute sense the issue is easy to collect in grades up to and including MS-64. At and above the Gem level, however, the conditionally challenging nature of this issue comes readily to the fore.