1900 $1 Lafayette MS(PCGS#9222)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auktionator

Stack's Bowers

Losnummer

4759

Erhaltungsgrad

MS65

Preis

5.760

Losbeschreibung

The Act of March 3, 1899, authorized the Mint to strike a maximum of 50,000 silver dollars to commemorative the construction of a monument to General Lafayette in Paris as part of the United States government's participation in the Paris Exposition of 1900. This mintage was achieved, along with 26 additional coins for assay purposes and possibly 10 Proofs. In the end, however, only 36,000 Mint State coins were sold, including 1,800 examples distributed in Paris, with the remaining 14,000 returned to the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. and eventually melted. (Mis)handling over the years has confined most examples to grades of MS-64 and lower; in MS-65 the Lafayette dollar is one of the key types in the United States Mint's classic commemorative coin series.