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1855 $1 Gold Indian PCGS MS65

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1855 $1 Gold Indian PCGS MS65
<b>1855 &#36;1 Gold Indian. PCGS graded MS65.</b> Lightly clashed dies. Pleasant, almost cheery deep gold satin frost display lots of fresh gold color. A superlative specimen. What&#39;s more, it was struck with controlled precision throughout including all but the very centers of the design. Even Liberty&#39;s hair shows tremendous detail in the separated hair strands and lower curls.

James B. Longacre, a former portrait engraver and since 1844, chief engraver of the Mint, was delegated the task of modeling and engraving the dies for the gold dollar and the &#36;20 double eagle. Longacre was chosen ahead of Charles Welsh, Philadelphia bank note engraver and Allen Leonard, an engraver who designed the John Quincy Adams presidential medal for the Mint, according to Don Taxay in <i>The U.S. Mint and Coinage.</i>

More than 8 million of the original mintage of Coronet gold dollars and Type 2 Indian coins were eventually returned to the Treasury and the Mint for melting. The gold was recoined into large head &#40;post-1856&#41; Indian Head dollars, as well as Coronet quarter eagles and double eagles. This helps account for the rarity of high-grade specimens like the currently offered MS65 Type 2.

A DESIRABLE GEM BU 1855 TYPE 2 GOLD DOLLAR <b>&#40;PCGS # 7532&#41;</b> <i>
The Good River Collection.</i>

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