Trade Dollars

(1873-1885)

Federal officials faced a dilemma in the years after the Civil War. The Comstock Lode and other Western mines were producing large quantities of silver, but the government could use only limited amounts of it in coinage. This seems puzzling in retrospect, for silver coins were few and far between in circulation (a lingering legacy of wartime hoarding), and Americans presumably would have welcomed major infusions of silver coins. But Mint officials feared that new silver coins would be subject to hoarding as well, since the marketplace was awash with paper money, including fractional currency born of wartime need. People would have been only too happy to exchange these notes, which brought less than full face value, for precious-metal coinage.

For a time, the miners found outlets for their silver, often in coinage form, in foreign markets. Canada, Latin America and Eu.... (Expand Text)

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1873 TRADE T$1 MS65

FIRST YEAR OF ISSUE. JUST 7 GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$12,650.00

1873 TRADE T$1 MS66

GEM SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES WITH LIGHT AMBER TONING. ONLY ONE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$63,250.00

1875-S TRADE T$1 MS65+

VIRTUALLY WHITE WITH FLASHY SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES.
$14,850.00

1876 TRADE T$1 MS66

GEM LUSTROUS SURFACES. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER.
$22,000.00

1876-CC TRADE T$1 MS63

DOUBLE DIE REVERSE. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER. CAC.
$26,950.00

1877 TRADE T$1 MS65

GREAT DATE. ONLY 3 GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$10,950.00

1877 TRADE T$1 PR67

GEM PROOF. ONLY 510 COINS MINTED. JUST A SINGLE COIN GRADED HIGHER.
$32,950.00

1877-CC TRADE T$1 MS64

VERY SCARCE CARSON CITY DATE. ONLY THREE GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$22,000.00

1877-S TRADE T$1 MS65

GEM MINT STATE. CAC.
$12,500.00

1878 TRADE T$1 PR65 Deep Cameo

GEM WHITE DEEP MIRRORED PROOFLIKE. ONLY 900 MINTED. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED AT NGC. ONLY 900 STRUCK.
$15,400.00

1879 TRADE T$1 PR67 Cameo

GEM WHITE CAMEO.
$24,750.00

1879 TRADE T$1 PR67+ Deep Cameo

GEM WHITE DEEP CAMEO. A REAL DAZZLER. ONE OF THE FINEST TRADE DOLLARS GRADED FOR ALL DATES. IN FACT, ONLY FOUR COINS GRADED HIGHER IN DEEP CAMEO FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES. *QUALITY.
$60,000.00