1885-S $20 MS(PCGS#9005)

June 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

2442

等级

MS63+

价格

37,867

详细说明

This satiny golden-rose example is sharply struck throughout with outstanding eye appeal. The mintage for this issue is 683,500 coins. Similar to contemporary San Francisco Mint twenties most 1885-S examples promptly entered circulation; many others were shipped overseas as a component of international trade, and still others were set aside for the backing of Gold Certificates. David W. Akers, writing in 1982, enumerated a few dozen Uncirculated examples that he found listed in a survey of major auction sales going back to the 1940s. By 2004, when Q. David Bowers penned his <em>Guide Book of Double Eagle Gold Coins</em>, the supply was estimated at between 2,000 and 4,000 examples, this being in a different era after significant quantities of classic U.S. Mint gold coins had been repatriated from foreign bank hoards. While plentiful in lower grades, the 1885-S remains scarce to rare in grades that approach Gem Mint State. This is an exquisite coin at the MS-63+ level and worthy of the strongest bids.