Back to search
Image Coming Soon
Three Cent · $0.03
1863 Three Cent Silver (1851-1873)
Fivaz-Stanton Attribution
Intriguing History
By 1863, wartime hoarding of any coin with real silver content had grown so severe that Philadelphia's three-cent silver mintage collapsed to a small fraction of its prewar levels, with most of that year's tiny output going straight into proof sets for collectors.
Total Weight0.80 g