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1859 $1 Gold Indian NGC PF65 UCAM

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:6,500.00 USD Estimated At:13,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD
1859 $1 Gold Indian NGC PF65 UCAM
One of the finest known of this date, beautiful light coppery toning on the devices with deeply mirrored fields surrounding. Satiny frost on the devices provide maximum contrast over the mirror fields, enough to earn the coveted "Ultra Cameo" designation by NGC, not merely the still widely praised "Cameo" designation. A few tiny flakes in the planchet, as on nearly all early Proofs. If you demand the finest of the finest, then look no further than this lot. A very elusive date in Proof. Out of 80 originally struck, an unknown quantity (the majority?) went to the melting pots as unsold. NGC reports 5 in this grade, with 1 higher (8/05). NGC #1937982-001.

Out of possibly 15 traceable survivors, recent sales include: (1) Larry & Ira Goldberg 10/2000:643 NGC Proof 65 Cameo; (2) Kosoff 10/71:1599, Bowers 10/99 Bass II:128 PCGS Proof 65 #3473507 $12,650, Superior 4/04:1533, Superior 2/05; (3) Bowers 5/2000 Bass III:31 PCGS Proof 64 $8,050; (4) Heritage 1/2004:30394, NGC PF64 Deep Cameo (5) ANR 8/2004:917, NGC PF64 UCAM $8,050; (6) Superior's Ed Trompeter sale, 2/92:5, $14,300; (7) Superior's 2/93:1269, $7,700. NGC Proof 63 (possibly one of the above); (8) Stack's 11/94:1173, "Choice"; Stack's 5/95:1230, "Choice"; (9) Bowers 11/97:1168, PCGS Proof 64. (#97609)<p><i>Byron Reed Collection</i>