1889-S $20, PL MS(PCGS#99012)
1889-S $20, PL MS (PCGS#99012)
August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 3046
- 等级
- MS62PL
- 价格
- 28,344
- 详细说明
- 1889-S Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-62 PL (PCGS). Very reflective fields set this coin apart from the vast majority of Mint State 1889-S twenties extant. The devices are sharply struck with a more satiny finish, and the entire coin displays warm and attractive honey-rose patina. The San Francisco Mint produced 774,700 double eagles during the year 1889, a typically large production figure for the West Coast facility. David W. Akers, writing in 1982, noted that prior to the 1960s, the 1889-S was rare in Mint State and that some major collections of the era such as Roach, Flanagan, Atwater, Baldenhofer, Melish, and many others had to be satisfied with circulated specimens. Beginning on an especially large scale in the 1960s, and to a much greater extent in subsequent years, Uncirculated examples from overseas hoards were imported back into the United States, so that by 2004 when Q. David Bowers penned his Guide Book of Double Eagles, he supplied a high-end estimate for Uncirculated examples at 2,500 or more coins. As of this writing, only two examples have been certified in the PL category at PCGS. PCGS Population: just 2 in the PL category -- MS-62 PL and MS-62+ PL. PCGS# 99012. Click here for certification details from PCGS.