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1854 $1 Gold Indian Type 2 PCGS MS65

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1854 $1 Gold Indian Type 2 PCGS MS65
<b>1854 &#36;1 Gold Indian Type 2. PCGS graded MS65.</b> Creamy gold surfaces eddy and churn with almost &#34;frothy&#34; luster on this petite Type 2 gold dollar. Another special feature, this too, displays almost precision strike detail on the legends and main devices, which is unusual for the 1855 date, and only a faint a trace of soft detail at the centers. Some granularity in the planchet &#40;as made&#41; above UNITED and AMERICA as though from rust on the die.

The Indian small head gold dollar -- second of three circulating U.S. gold coins of this denomination -- was short-lived. Production of the coin, the brain child by Chief Mint Engraver James Barton Longacre, was carried out over just three years: 1854, 1855 and 1856. The mintage for circulation totaled 1,752,219 pieces spread over five production facilities: Philadelphia &#40;no mint mark&#41;, San Francisco &#40;S mint mark&#41;, New Orleans &#40;O mint mark&#41;, Dahlonega, Georgia &#40;D mint mark&#41;, and Charlotte, North Carolina &#40;C mint mark&#41;. The mint mark is positioned on the coin&#39;s reverse, below the wreath.

More than 94 percent of the mintage of the Indian small head came from the Philadelphia Mint the first two years, with mint records of 902,736 struck in 1854 and 758,269 in 1855. These proved much more popular than the heavy silver dollars they replaced, with many entering the channels of commerce as attested to by the fairly large number of well circulated survivors.

BEAUTIFUL GEM MINT STATE 1855 TYPE 2 GOLD DOLLAR <b>&#40;PCGS # 7531&#41;</b> <i>
The Good River Collection.</i>

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