1873 Trade Dollar. MS-64 (PCGS).；This engaging near-Gem is dressed in warm pinkish-gray patina, warmer olive-russet and silver-blue highlights confined to the protected areas around the devices. Soft satin luster blankets features that are boldly to sharply defined in virtually all areas. The premier Philadelphia Mint issue in the circulation strike trade dollar series, the 1873 saw widespread exportation to the Orient, the rasion detre for this denomination. As such, Mint State survivors are scarce in an absolute sense and become increasingly rarer the closer one comes to the Gem grade level.；
