The D. Brent Pogue 1877 $3 is a fully prooflike example of this highly elusive key date. The devices are frosty and the fields reflective, the whole infused with deep orange-gold and olive iridescence. Despite some trivial obverse hairlines the coin still affords a superior appearance to the unaided eye. The reverse is of equal quality to the obverse and reveals no marks of any significant nature. Just 1,468 examples of the date were produced for circulation. Today’s population is somewhere between 60 to 100 pieces, of which fewer than a dozen are in true Mint State. Most of those coins hover at the low end of the Uncirculated charts, say Mint State-60 to 62. Mint State-63 can be considered very rare. The rarity of the date has long been recognized with most experts considering the 1877 to be at least as rare as the much-heralded 1865. “Finest of the fine” holds true for many of the D. Brent Pogue $3s, and for the present coin there is no denying its status at the top of the grading population chart. We expect strong bidding when this memorable specimen crosses the auction block.PCGS# 7999. NGC ID: 25MY.
