1891-CC $20 MS(PCGS#9017)

August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1404

等级

MS60

价格

262,142

详细说明

Eagerly Sought Low Mintage 1891-CC Double Eagle Rare Mint State Quality 1891-CC Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-60 (PCGS). Displaying deep golden-wheat color with intermingled apricot highlights, this is a beautiful and conditionally rare example of a key date CC-Mint double eagle. Sharply to fully struck with bountiful mint luster in a satiny modestly frosted finish. Uncommonly smooth and inviting for the assigned grade, and worthy of a strong premium. With just 5,000 pieces produced, the 1891-CC is the lowest mintage Carson City Mint double eagle of the 1889 to 1893 era. Circulation on the West Coast was immediate and extensive, although a couple of thousand examples were probably exported after acquiring wear. Most of those coins were melted overseas, although a few hundred have been repatriated in recent decades, to the delight of collectors who would otherwise not be able to obtain an example of this key date $20. As above, the majority of the repatriated coins are worn to one degree or another, and Mint State survivors number only 26 to 35 examples (per Rusty Goe, 2020). This is one of the very few examples at this level that we have offered in recent decades, and it is a leading highlight of the extensive double eagle offerings in this installment of the Fairmont Collection. Provenance: From the Fairmont Collection - Rhone Set. PCGS Population: 7; 21 finer (MS-63 finest). PCGS# 9017. NGC ID: 26C3. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA. Click here to see Coins in Motion.[“Coins]