141, Lot: 246. Estimate $100. Sold for $171. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNITED STATES. AR Trade Dollar (38mm, 27.25 g, 6h). San Francisco mint. Dated 1877 S. Liberty seated left, on cotton bale, holding branch and banner / Standing eagle facing, head right. Breen 5810 (1 and 8 touch, large S mint-mark). VF, toned.

Walter Breen comments: “The issue of this coin was an expensive mistake - its motivation mere greed, its design a triumph of dullness, its domestic circulation and legal-tender status a disastrous provision of law leading to ghastly abuses...and its collection a source of decades of frustration.”