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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7946370, member: 101855&quot;]Here are four pieces from my nine piece collection. No, I don&#039;t have an 1876-CC. The ninth one is a circulated 1875-S that I put beside a circulated Seated Quarter in an exhibit.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1875-CC</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1376193[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>NGC graded this one MS-62. It has funky color, but my investigations into getting a nicer one have turned up pieces with &quot;phone number&quot; prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 40 to 50 % of these coins are weakly struck on the top of the eagle&#039;s left wing and the corresponding area on the obverse, which happens to be the shield the word “LIBERTY.” This one is well struck, which is the best thing it has going for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>With a mintage of over 1 million, the 1875-S is, by far, the most common date and mint mark combination. The 1875-CC is the second most common with a mintage 133,290.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1876-P</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1376196[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>This the highest grade and best preserved Twenty Cent Piece in my collection. The &quot;Red Book&quot; reported mintage 14,640, but net mintage is lower than that. No all of these pieces were issued after the word came down that no more would be issued for circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1877</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1376197[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the scarcest collectible date in the series. The reported mintage is 510 Proofs, but the number issued is lower than that because the coins were not sold. The current guess is that the net mintage was about 350 pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prices went way up on this one. I sold a piece that I had, which had some issues for a good price, only to find out that the market had gone crazy. I ended up overpaying for this one which is graded PR-64 Cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1878</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1376198[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>With a reported mintage of 600 Proofs, this piece plays second fiddle to the 1877. Once more the net mintage is somewhat lower, but higher than the 1877 coin. This one is a really nice PR-64. It&#039;s not flashy so no one is going to go ga-ga over it. I like it because it was the last of its kind.</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, if you think that you have found an 1876-CC, here&#039;s tip. All of them are doubled die coins with a double &quot;LIBERTY.&quot; I think that this is the one that was offered to me for $650,000, with a close-up of the all important LIBERTY.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1376199[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1376200[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1376201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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