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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 24619036, member: 112&quot;]While I cannot swear that it&#039;s the case, I suspect an exception was made with these because the coins had been demonetized as Bowers states in the next paragraph - </p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The official Mint issue price for Proof trade dollars from 1878 to 1883 was $1.025 each, according to one account, <u>because the coin had been demonetized</u>; most other sources give the figure as $1.25 each, a figure with which R.W. Julian agrees. (Earlier, when the coins were worth $1 face value each, 1873 Proofs were sold for $1.75 each in paper money or $1.50 each in silver.)&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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