1869 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. OC-P2. Rarity-4. Doubled Die Reverse. Proof-63 (NGC). Lightly toned in iridescent silver-gray, this is a sharply struck coin with modest, yet appreciable field-to-device contrast evident at direct lighting angles. Six hundred Proof silver dollars were struck by the Philadelphia Mint in 1869 from four distinct die pairs. The OC-P2 variety, as offered here, is one of three identified as a Doubled Die Reverse, which feature is boldest at the letters IN in the motto IN GOD WE TRUST. From our (Stacks) sale of the John Work Garrett Collection for The Johns Hopkins University, March 1976, part of lot 303, an original 1869 Proof set.
