1881-S $1 MS66 PCGS CAC

This coin is an absolute headlight in-hand, featuring neon green, pink, and yellow over much of the obverse, with some beautiful powder blue and peach peripheries. What sets this coin apart is not only the bright colors, but the intense underlying luster which rolls all over the coin and creates an effect that makes the colors appear glassy and even "wet." This exact luster and surface quality is perhaps the single most desirable characteristic to have on a toner, and something which only the very best S-mint toners possess. This piece glows with a luminous, pearl-like brilliance that remains immediately evident even before the color reveals itself. The obverse is drenched in extraordinarily vivid, high-saturation toning, anchored by warm golden-yellow at the portrait’s center and accelerating into a saturated rainbow spectrum along the right half of the design, where fuchsia, magenta, rose violet, teal, cobalt, emerald, and electric aqua overlap in sharply defined zones. Light champagne silver remains visible on the left, allowing strong cartwheel luster to flash through uninterrupted. The excellence of this coin is further attested by the fact that it has been home to four world-class Morgan collections over the last several decades - Hansen, Norther Lights, World of Color and Sonnier. The rare opportunity presents itself for this famous coin to join a new toned Morgan cabinet, where it will likely remain for many years to come. This coin today sits squarely in a performance range where toned examples of this date and grade have recorded results between $11,000 and $21,000 in MS66.

Pedigree:

$5,250 10/22 DLRC - ex D.L Hansen Collection

ex Northern Lights Collection

ex World of Color Collection

ex Sonnier Collection

• PCGS Cert Verification # 06668528
• PCGS Coin# 7130