1864 1C Bronze, RB PR(PCGS#2277)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

2131

Grade

PR66+RB

Price

8,400

Lot Description

This wonderfully original example combines a bright rose-orange obverse with a warmer, yet no less attractive reverse dressed in salmon-pink, lilac-blue and olive-brown colors. A sharply struck, expertly preserved example from a mintage that is best estimated at 300 Proofs. Snow-PR2 accounts for the vast majority of survivors of the Proof 1864 Bronze, No L Indian cent, with Rick Snow (2014) asserting that upward of 200 specimens were coined from these dies. This is an earlier die state example, close inspection with a loupe revealing only minimal evidence of die rust on Liberty's portrait.