PCGS Weekly Update April 7, 2026

Recent Price Guide Updates

• MS Peace Dollar
• MS Ike Dollar
• MS Susan B. Anthony Dollar
• MS $10 Liberty Head
• MS $10 Indian
• MS $20 Liberty Head
• MS $20 Saint-Gaudens

PCGS CoinFacts Update

More than 286,000 business-strike quarters were produced in 1834. While this mintage was typical for the era, it is considered minuscule by modern standards. Truly infinitesimal, however, is the estimated population of just 10 proof examples. Some of these were likely struck for the same presentation sets that necessitated the creation of the famous 1804 silver dollar and 1804 (Plain 4) gold eagle. This historical lineage elevates the 1834 Proof Capped Bust Quarter to a level of prestige few other proof issues can claim.   Read more.

PCGS Set Registry Update

Great Britain began settlements in Australia right before the 19th century started. Currency used in the early days was predominately of British and Spanish origin. Some trade occurred with Indigenous Australians in localities across Australia, and coins were used for their precious-metal content because the denomination was irrelevant. As more settlements were established, the demand for coinage increased and shortages soon prevailed. Lachlan Macquarie, a general, also served as Governor of New South Wales and minted the country's first coins. He ordered 40,000 Spanish 8 reales in 1812, stipulated a hole to be cut in each coin with a counterstamp, and declared the cut portion -- or the "dump" -- was to be used as currency, too. This famous coin is known as the "Holey Dollar," and by 1822 British coinage had replaced these coins, which were withdrawn from circulation. It took many years until the first minting operations were fully set up in the city of Sydney in 1855. The coin shown above is an 1855-SY sovereign, which is part of the Australian Sydney Mint First Year of Issue Type Sovereign Set, Circulation Strikes (1855-1925) that PCGS has listed. This challenging set features a sovereign from the first year with a new coin design from the Sydney Mint.

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