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A satiny beauty, sharply struck and heavily endowed with lustre. Perhaps a hint of pale
gold adorns the surfaces, adding even more aesthetic appeal. An ever-popular low-mintage
issue, about which Dave Bowers wrote "unlike the higher mintage 1879-CC and 1889-CC
dollars, large quantities of 1881-CC were stored by the Treasury, to be released 80 years
later to delight a generation of numismatists unborn when the coins were made." The
present coin is among the finest survivors of the date, at least as far as PCGS is
concerned; that firm has certified just three examples of the date at a finer level than
the present gem. Undeniably worthy of the assigned grade.
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