Author: Sirhc

Just Six Graded Higher – 1863-S Liberty Eagle NGC AU55

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The 1863-S is even rarer than suggested by its production of 10,000 pieces. It is also a condition rarity, most likely because of the general unawareness of mint-marked coins and their relative scarcity until the 1893 publication by Augustus Heaton of his groundbreaking work  Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints. By then, most of the remaining 1863-S tens were well-worn. Today, VF-XF coins are usually all that are encountered with AU pieces such as this among the finest examples available. In hand, this example is considerably lighter in hue and more lustrous than seen in our images. The NGC population is only 3 with 6 graded higher (only one of which is mint state).

Listed at $30,000 in the CDN CPG and $33,500 in the NGC price guide.

Offfered at $26,320

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Among the Finest Known – 1853 Liberty Eagle PCGS MS63

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Overseas discoveries of large quantities of Philadelphia Mint No Motto eagles has made the 1853 far more available in lower Uncirculated grades than they were even a decade ago. As with virtually all dates of the No Motto type, MS62 1853 eagles remain scarce, and this date is very rare in MS63 or finer. This particular example offers pleasing orange-gold color and satiny surfaces. The PCGS population is only 5 with 3 graded higher.

 Listed at $31,200 in the CDN CPG and $35,000 in the PCGS price guide.

Offered at $27,700

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Choice 1794 (Head of 1794) Liberty Cap Cent PCGS AU55

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S-44, B-33, R.1. One of the common 1794 varieties, this die combination is usually recognized at a glance by the die cracks on each side. The obverse is cracked through the 7 and 1, the lower hair curls, the left field, and along the outer edge of the cap to the border at 10 o’clock. The present example has minimal wear, evident on the hair curl above the ear. Its glossy surfaces are toned lavender-blue interspersed with mahogany-brown. An attractive representative with a slight lamination on the N in UNITED.

Listed at $13,300 in the CDN CPG and $12,500 in the PCGS price guide.

Offered at $11,700

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1889-CC Morgan Dollar NGC MS63 DPL

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After a four-year hiatus, the Carson City Mint was authorized to resume coinage in July 1889, although operations did not commence until October due to repairs that needed to be performed on the building and machinery. Morgan dollar production in the final quarter of the year reached 350,000 coins. Unlike earlier silver dollar issues from this mint that were largely dumped into long-term storage and forgotten, the 1889-CC seems to have been released — at least in part — into circulation. Worn coins are plentiful today, and Mint State pieces are scarce by comparison.
The 1889-CC has long been the condition key of the Carson City Morgans, but its status as one of the key dates of the entire series was established permanently in the 1970s, when no large quantities of this date emerged from the GSA sales. A single GSA coin, sold in the Mixed CC offerings, stood as a glaring reminder of just how challenging high-grade 1889-CC Morgans would continue to be.

This survivor displays more pronounced Cameo contrast on its reverse than its obverse, but the latter is still more heavily frosted than is apparent in our image. The NGC population is 30 with 13 graded higher, none better than MS64. Listed at $75,000 in the CDN CPG and $71,500 in the NGC price guide.

Offered at $65,500

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Highly Coveted Saint Issue – NGC MS63 1929 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle

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After numerous common date Philadelphia Mint double eagles were issued through 1928, mintages continued at substantial levels in 1929 and beyond. However, beginning in 1929 these pieces were not widely distributed, but rather, were stored in Treasury vaults awaiting their fate in the government melting pots of the mid and late-1930s. In Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins,  Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth wrote: “Beginning with the 1929 double eagle and continuing through the 1933 issue, any collector who undertakes obtaining these issues does so with extreme care and financial fortitude.”
The existing population of these pieces today survives from those few coins obtained by contemporary collectors, or from a small additional number of pieces that have been found in Europe. According to Roger Burdette, the maximum number of 1929 double eagles that could have survived is 1,176 pieces with the estimated survival of only 350 pieces. The NGC population is 28 with 68 graded higher.

Listed at $62,400 in the CDN CPG and $60,000 in the NGC price guide.

Offered at $54,500

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