1852-O $20 MS(PCGS#8907)

August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

5165

等级

MS60

价格

166,024

详细说明

Seldom Offered 1852-O Double Eagle in Mint State 1852-O Liberty Head Double Eagle. Winter-1, the only known dies. MS-60 (NGC). The fields of this outstanding New Orleans Mint double eagle offer lovely mint luster in a soft frosty texture. Deep honey-olive undertones enhance dominant rose-orange color. This impressive coin is well preserved for an 1852-O twenty, has outstanding eye appeal, and ranks among the finer certified for the issue in today's market. The New Orleans Mint was the only Southern mint to produce the double eagle and only did so in modest quantities using gold provided from the vast California gold fields. 190,000 examples of the denomination were struck there in 1852, making it the second largest mintage for an O-Mint double eagle. These coins saw use throughout the South and the Atlantic Seaboard and seem to have only infrequently been shipped abroad in international trade. One of the most available of all the O-Mint double eagles, the 1852-O can still be a challenge for the discerning specialist. Estimates vary on the number of surviving specimens, most likely in the range of 1,500 to 1,750 pieces, almost all of which are in mid-level circulated states of preservation. No vast quantities have so far been found in repatriated hoards, though several have appeared from such holdings. A few have been found in the S.S. Central Americaand S.S. Republictreasures, but these have not substantially augmented the supply. Above EF, this issue is quite scarce and with fewer than two dozen different Mint State examples believed extant, the present offering is of the utmost significance for advanced Southern gold and double eagle collectors. PCGS# 8907. NGC ID: 268L. Click here for certification details from NGC.