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Victoria 10 Cents 1884 MS65 PCGS, London mint, KM3. Mintage: 150,000. The undisputed key date of the series and a truly magnificent representative at that, only a single piece ranking a grade point finer out of 104 examples certified between PCGS and NGC combined. Beginning after a hiatus of 13 years, in 1871 the Royal Mint in London again began striking 10 Cents pieces for circulation in Canada. While most of the subsequent dates in Victoria's reign saw between half a million to one million coins struck per year, the 1884 stands at fewer than a quarter of the pieces produced as those other dates, with half as many minted as the next scarcest date, the 1883-H. By far most known examples exist only in circulated grades, the Norweb, Pittman, and Burhop coins all in the VF to XF range, the George Cook specimen only an UNC Details, and the Belzberg Collection containing an MS62. We have offered just one other MS65 of this date, as part of our sale of the Canadiana Collection, which brought an impressive $34,500 in 2010, though even that piece appears to have contained notably more wisps than the present offering.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/canada/canada-victoria-10-cents-1884-ms65-pcgs-/a/3081-32104.s?type=CoinArchives3081
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Estimate: 35000-37000 USD
Victoria 10 Cents 1884 MS65 PCGS, London mint, KM3. Mintage: 150,000. The undisputed key date of the series and a truly magnificent representative at that, only a single piece ranking a grade point finer out of 104 examples certified between PCGS and NGC combined. Beginning after a hiatus of 13 years, in 1871 the Royal Mint in London again began striking 10 Cents pieces for circulation in Canada. While most of the subsequent dates in Victoria's reign saw between half a million to one million coins struck per year, the 1884 stands at fewer than a quarter of the pieces produced as those other dates, with half as many minted as the next scarcest date, the 1883-H. By far most known examples exist only in circulated grades, the Norweb, Pittman, and Burhop coins all in the VF to XF range, the George Cook specimen only an UNC Details, and the Belzberg Collection containing an MS62. We have offered just one other MS65 of this date, as part of our sale of the Canadiana Collection, which brought an impressive $34,500 in 2010, though even that piece appears to have contained notably more wisps than the present offering.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/canada/canada-victoria-10-cents-1884-ms65-pcgs-/a/3081-32104.s?type=CoinArchives3081
HID02906262019
© 2019 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved
Estimate: 35000-37000 USD