 1866 With Motto. About Uncirculated and offering plenty of frosty mint lustre on either side. There is, however, a single shallow obverse edge bump at 11:00. Evenly struck and otherwise quite appealing in light of the great rarity of this important issue, of which only 6700 were struck.
Ex Martin F. Kortjohn Collection (Stack's, October 19, 1979, lot 167).
We must remind all bidders not to allow the presence of two examples of this issue to prejudice them in any way as to their rarity. The surviving population within this grade range only totals perhaps 30, while the number of Mint State survivors numbers on the order of a paltry half dozen or so.
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