Trade dollar proofs

vulcanize

Have always loved the trade dollar ever since laying my eyes on them the very first time.
After completing the Dansco #6172, wanted to dabble in the proofs and started off collecting whatever I could find on a tight budget with the 1884 & 1885 remaining a dream.

1873


1874


1875


1876


1877


1878


1879


1880


1881


1882


1883

**edited for typo

davewesen

very nice, I really like the blues on the 1874.

alefzero

That 1876 is the transtitional die (also used to strike for circulation), as you probably already know. Type I obverse hubbing but with the added finger that was later used in the Type II obverse design.

Very nice set!

lermish

Pretty great, congratulations on a really really nice set!!!

kaz

Congratulations on a really nice date run!

WilliamF

Nice! The 76 and 79 are beautiful and very original!

AUandAG

I love them all but the '75 is stunning!

bob

spyglassdesign

Nice trade set! I just picked up my first trade dollar yesterday... They are such a sadly short lived series, and yet you have managed to get almost all of them! Impressive!

winesteven

Gorgeous set! You should be VERY proud!

Steve

Type2

Very nice.

Batman23

Nice set! Congrats!

The_Dinosaur_Man

Awesome set! For whatever reason, I like the circulated pieces.

ricko

Wow!! Well done!! Great set of Trade Dollars. Thanks for showing us. Cheers, RickO

vulcanize

@davewesen said:
very nice, I really like the blues on the 1874.

Thank you. I think it has further turned inside the slab.

@AUandAG said:
I love them all but the '75 is stunning!

bob

Thank you.
I feel it is undergraded. Incidentally all of the 11 proof Trade dollars in that Collection were acquired in 1944 for $120 and remained intact until 2002 before being broken apart.

vulcanize

@alefzero said:
That 1876 is the transtitional die (also used to strike for circulation), as you probably already know. Type I obverse hubbing but with the added finger that was later used in the Type II obverse design.

Very nice set!

Thank you.
Was really hoping for it to be a Type II/II but the scroll with the word "Liberty" is not pointing down.

@WilliamF said:
Nice! The 76 and 79 are beautiful and very original!

Thank you.

The 79 has the CAC green bean

vulcanize

@lermish said:
Pretty great, congratulations on a really really nice set!!!

Thank you.

@kaz said:
Congratulations on a really nice date run!

Thank you.
The 1884 and 1885 will always remain a dream

@spyglassdesign said:
Nice trade set! I just picked up my first trade dollar yesterday... They are such a sadly short lived series, and yet you have managed to get almost all of them! Impressive!

Thank you.
It was real fun.

vulcanize

@winesteven said:
Gorgeous set! You should be VERY proud!

Steve

Thank you.
You are an inspiration.
Started with a much lower grades of the 1880 and 1881 when a member from another forum adviced me to scout around for higher grades that were only marginally more than what I was already paying.
Took a while but am glad it worked out.

vulcanize

@Type2 said:
Very nice.

Thank you.

@Batman23 said:
Nice set! Congrats!

Thank you.

@ricko said:
Wow!! Well done!! Great set of Trade Dollars. Thanks for showing us. Cheers, RickO

Thank you.

vulcanize

@The_Dinosaur_Man said:
Awesome set! For whatever reason, I like the circulated pieces.

Thank you.
I had already completed the circulated set in a Dansco and was thinking of going down the path of assembling a "chopmarked" set.
But for some reason it did not pan out much because the ones available either looked fake or did not catch my fancy.

SPalladino

Impressive and beautiful set. Thank you for sharing.

vulcanize

@SPalladino said:
Impressive and beautiful set. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you.

Your thread https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1082418/nice-little-surprise-1873-cc-trade-dollar-fs-301-mpd made me look up the archive pics of my coins and that led to this thread being opened.

Now am feeling motivated to take it all out of the safe box and have a much closer look in person.

Cheers.

Crypto

what a run, well done

golden

Back in the early 1970's I owned a very nice 1882 Trade Dollar in Proof. Wish that I had it now.

vulcanize

@golden said:
Back in the early 1970's I owned a very nice 1882 Trade Dollar in Proof. Wish that I had it now.

Just a little over two decades prior in 1946, some of the trade dollars were worth way less than face value as per the blue book.

Courtesy: https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/s/NXzqyjfbPN

Eldorado9

Great coins Buddy. I am a huge Trade Dollar fan, and they are tough to find these days with great eye appeal, graded properly, without issues, etc. Very tough in fact.

RichieURich

A very nice set, congratulations!

CRHer700

@vulcanize said:

@golden said:
Back in the early 1970's I owned a very nice 1882 Trade Dollar in Proof. Wish that I had it now.

Just a little over two decades prior in 1946, some of the trade dollars were worth way less than face value as per the blue book.

Courtesy: https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/s/NXzqyjfbPN

Because they weren't legal tender.

allnewsanchor

Holy cannoli. The '73 is gorgeous and the '82 has sensational detail. WTG!

LukeMarshall

The Details on the Proof Trade Dollars are Amazing,... Congrats on putting these together! I really like the 2 circulated proofs in old PCGS plastic

vulcanize

Thank you all.
Absolutely had a blast putting them together.
Since this a two year old post that got resurrected, don't want to start a new one
I welcome you all to guess the grades on here.

Cheers.