1878 $3 MS(PCGS#8000)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

8525

Grade

MS64

Price

4,320

Lot Description

A delightful piece worthy of a premium bid, both sides are fully lustrous with a smooth enough texture to suggest a higher grade. Boldly to sharply struck throughout with pretty rose highlights to dominant medium gold patina. The quintessential type candidate in the challenging three-dollar gold series of 1854 to 1889, the 1878 enjoys particularly strong demand in the finer Mint State grades, as here.