No Saint, But a Tough N.O. $10 Lib The 1882-O eagle is an elusive issue from a small mintage of 10,820 coins. The average survivor grades AU50. Rarely encountered in Mint State, with fewer than 40 pieces certified MS60 to MS63 at PCGS and NGC combined. This particular example is particularly flashy with semi-prooflike surfaces…
You Should See This (Near Gem) C (Mint) The 1852-C is among the most plentiful Charlotte gold dollar issues despite a mintage of only 9,434 coins. Doug Winters estimates that as many as 350 coins may survive. However, few are in the upper Mint State grades. This Plus-graded near-Gem is conditionally rare, and just a…
Rare, Choice Unc. The 1865 Liberty twenty claims a nominal mintage of 351,175 pieces. Before the era of recent shipwreck finds, this date was seldom encountered above the VF-XF grade level. Fortunately, 320 examples of the 1865 were recovered from the wreck of the S.S. Republic. Most of the recovered coins were in higher AU- Mint…
A Half Dozen From a mintage of 1.2 million pieces, the 1879-S Liberty double eagle was heavily circulated at the time of issue and many examples were used to settle large accounts in foreign trade. Many coins have been repatriated from overseas holdings in recent years, but most examples seen have excessive bag-marks from rough…
Gem and Then Some The gold dollar was introduced in 1849, authorized by the same legislation that created the double eagle in the wake of gold discoveries in California. Gold dollars weighed just 1.672 gm and had a diameter of 13 mm, making them even smaller than the three cent silver pieces that would be…
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