For the 1880 Liberty Head $2.50, 36 Proofs were struck, and probably about 15 survive today (although Walter Breen estimates two dozen). Compounding the desirability of the 1880 is the low business strike production figure: 2,960.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the Louis E. Eliasberg United States Gold Coin Auction, where it sold for $9,350.