1857-O $20 MS(PCGS#8921)

1857-O $20 MS (PCGS#8921)

The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale

详细说明: 1857-O Liberty Double Eagle. Winter Variety One, the only known dies. AU-55 (PCGS). Warm, even, orange-gold color blankets both sides and yields to a much brighter, predominantly lustrous sheen as the surfaces dip into a light. The original finish for this coin is definitely prooflike, as typically seen for the issue, and much more of the luster remains than usually seen for the 1857-O Twenty. Minimally worn and overall scuffy in appearance, although these features do little more than define the grade. A thin, shallow scuff in the lower-left obverse field is noted for accuracy.<br />     While a mintage of 30,000 pieces is still very limited even by the standards of the 1850s New Orleans Mint, the 1857-O was produced in far greater numbers than the 1854-O, 1855-O and 1856-O. As a result, this issue is not as rare in today's market, but it is still a very challenging coin to obtain when viewed in the wider context of U.S. numismatics. With fewer than 200 coins believed extant, the 1857-O ranks ninth in rarity among the 31 issues in the O-mint Double Eagle series. It is rarer than the 1850-O, 1851-O, 1852-O and 1853-O and is a very rare issue in AU and Mint State.