1881-S $1 MS(PCGS#7130)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

3074

Grade

MS68+

Price

13,800

Lot Description

Virtually pristine with outstanding visual appeal, this Ultra Gem Uncirculated beauty is fully untoned to allow ready appreciation of intense mint frost. It is a sharply struck, expertly preserved, and exquisite example of both the type and issue worthy of the strongest bids.<p>One of the quintessential type candidates in the Morgan silver dollar series, the 1881-S is the most available early date issues in Mint State. Millions of the 12,760,000 coins struck remained in federal storage until released by the Treasury Department in 1938, during the 1950s and, especially, in the early to mid 1960s. Given their ready availability and the high standards of quality to which virtually all were produced, 1881-S dollars have been extremely popular with type collectors seeking a single Mint State coin to represent the Morgan dollar series. At the threshold of numismatic perfection, however, the example offered here is rare from a condition standpoint. Indeed it is far better preserved than the vast majority of 1881-S dollars, the surfaces possessing equally superior eye appeal. A find for the most discerning of numismatists.