1879-CC Morgan Silver Dollar. VAM-3, Top 100 Variety. Capped Die. MS-63 (NGC). CAC.This otherwise brilliant example exhibits a crescent of bold reddish-orange and cobalt blue along the lower left reverse border. It is boldly to sharply struck throughout with full mint luster. The scarcest Carson City Mint Morgan dollar of the 1878 to 1885 era, the 1879-CC is particularly elusive in an original GSA holder, as here. Just 4,123 of the 756,000 coins struck, 0.50% of the mintage, were distributed through the various GSA sales of the 1970s. The present example is from the VAM-3 die pairing; this so-called Capped Die variety is rarer than its Clear CC counterpart. The original box and card are included.NGC Census (GSA holder only): 4; 32 finer in this category (MS-65 finest).
