1860-O $20 MS (PCGS#8930)
The June 2010 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Bowers & Merena
- 批号
- 3841
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 431,940
- 详细说明
- 1860-O Liberty Double Eagle. Winter Variety One, the only known dies. AU-58 (NGC). Although not widely regarded as a well-struck issue, the example of the 1860-O Double Eagle that we offer here is actually quite sharply defined. The overall definition is superior to that seen in the plate coin on page 230 of the 2006 book <em>Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint: 1839-1909 </em>by Doug Winter, with Liberty's portrait, the obverse stars and the reverse eagle all being of particular note in this regard. In fact, only on stars 1-7 on the obverse do we see minor softness to the detail. Other positive attributes for this coin include pleasing green-gold color and a lack of individually distracting abrasions despite a somewhat scuffy "look" to both sides. Traces of a semi-prooflike finish are also discernible, but only at direct angles and then again mostly in the protected areas around the devices. A small, shallow indentation in the planchet at the obverse rim outside stars 3-4 should serve as a useful pedigree marker.<br /> The 1860-O entered the annals of coinage history with a mintage of just 6,600 pieces. It is a very rare issue in all grades with a scant 85-95 coins believed extant (per Winter). This is actually the sixth-rarest New Orleans Mint Double Eagle in an absolute sense, and the fifth-rarest in grades above EF. The issue is virtually unknown in Mint State and would have been totally unknown at that level of preservation were it not for the discovery of a single MS-60 among the treasure of the <em>S.S. Republic</em>. Near-Mint survivors such as this NGC AU-58, therefore, represent the finest in quality realistically obtainable for this rare and conditionally challenging Double Eagle.
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