1853 "900" $20 U.S. Assay Office MS (PCGS#10013)
August 2018 ANA U.S. Coins Auction Philadelphia, PA
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1420
- 等级
- MS60
- 价格
- 69,783
- 详细说明
- Perennially Popular 1853 U.S. Assay Office of Gold $20
1853 United States Assay Office of Gold $20. K-18. Rarity-2. 900 THOUS. MS-60 (NGC).
Lovely medium gold surfaces are sharply to fully struck over virtually all design elements. Both sides are lustrous, as befits the assigned grade, with a softly frosted texture from the dies. Fairly smooth overall, and sure to have no difficulty finding its way into an advanced numismatic cabinet. This is one of the most frequently encountered types in the privately minted California Gold Rush coinage series of the late 1840s and 1850s. The United States Assay Office of Gold under Curtis, Perry and Ward struck 2.5 million 900 THOUS $20 gold pieces from the beginning of March to the end of October, 1853. The coins were widely distributed, with many finding their way into circulation on the West Coast and others being shipped back to the Eastern United States as gold bullion. Thirty different dies were used to produce this high mintage issue, and they survived until destroyed by fires caused by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Mint State survivors such as this are away in demand.
PCGS# 10014. NGC ID: ANHD.
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