1889 Liberty Head Nickel
Certified Cameo Percentage: 0.6%
Certified Deep Cameo Percentage: 0%
Stack's Bowers Galleries offered the finest certified cameo 1889 Liberty Nickel in June of 2012. It was graded Proof-67 Cameo and it would be easy to consider it the "Holy Grail" piece for this date. Other than this particular piece, finding an example for your collection will be easy and can be done so for less than $1,000.
The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the June 2012 Baltimore Auction, where it realized $17,625.