1875 Gold Dollar. MS-66 DPL (NGC).A landmark rarity from the Type III gold dollar series, this is the only Mint State 1875 certified in the PCGS, NGC and CACG DMPL/DPL category. It is a stunning premium Gem with rich, vivid orange-gold color on highly lustrous surfaces. The fields are deeply reflective and strongly contrast sharply struck, satiny design elements; a stark cameoed finish is appreciable when the coin is admired under direct lighting angles - very attractive. Expertly preserved, as well, this is one of the most desirable survivors of this fabled low mintage issue available to todays discerning numismatists.<p>With the exception of the double eagle denomination, the gold coin production at the Philadelphia Mint in 1875 can only be described as minuscule at best. 400 gold dollars, 400 quarter eagles, 200 half eagles, and 100 eagles were struck for circulation while the three-dollar gold piece was only made in Proof format. For the gold dollar, the days when it served a useful purpose in commerce had long since passed, and many of the 400 circulation strikes delivered in 1875 were either set aside by, if not outright intended for, numismatists. The result is an unusually generous (for the era) surviving population of 10% to 20%, or 40 to 80 coins, as estimated by Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth in their 2008 <em>Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins: 1795-1933</em>. Q. David Bowers provides an even more generous total of 70 to 100 extant in all grades in his <em>Guide Book of Gold Dollars</em> (2011 edition), 40 to 60 of which are Mint State. These are, of course, limited totals in an absolute sense, and they are extremely limited when scaled against demand for classic U.S. Mint gold coins from todays advanced collectors. Given how infrequently high grade Mint State examples appear on the market, our offering of this unique DPL coin certified by NGC will be hotly pursued.PCGS# 87576. NGC ID: 25DD.Property of a Texas Gentleman. Earlier from our (Bowers and Merenas) sale of the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV, November 2000, lot 90; Heritages Chicago ANA Signature Auction of August 2019, lot 3826; Heritages August 2020 Signature Auction, lot 3961.
