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1873-P United States Trade Dollars (1873-1885)

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Key Features

Mintage: 600 or 865 (Mint records support either figure). About 600 estimated survivors. PCGS auction record: $63,250 for a PR66 (Heritage, August 2004). Source: PCGS CoinFacts.

Intriguing History

Collectors showed little interest in proof Trade dollars at first. Q. David Bowers believes more than half of the 1873 proofs were simply spent, which makes nice examples scarcer than the mintage suggests.

Total Weight27.22 g

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