1885 Three-Dollar Gold Piece. MS-62 (NGC).Direct lighting calls forth appreciable semi-reflective tendencies from this fields of this otherwise satiny orange-gold example. Sharply struck throughout with an uncommonly smooth appearance in hand for the assigned grade. Among the more elusive and eagerly sought circulation strike three-dollar gold issues, the 1885 has a paltry mintage of just 801 pieces. With fewer than 350 coins believed extant in all grades, most of which are circulated to one degree or another, the 1885 represents a particularly significant find in Mint State.